1 Kings 15:12 KJV — MannaFest

1 Kings 15:12

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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ASV

And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

WEB

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

YLT

and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

DBT

And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

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1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (Bava Batra 15a). The book draws on court annals and prophetic records cited by name.
Date: Events c. 970–852 BC; compilation during the late Judahite monarchy or exile

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2 Kings 23:7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
1 Kings 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 14:23–24
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

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his mother's name was Maachah--She was properly his grandmother, and she is here called "the king's mother," from the post of dignity which at the beginning of his reign she possessed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

His father having made them, he was the more concerned to remove them, that he might cut off the entail of the curse, and prevent the visiting of that iniquity upon him and his. Nay (which redounds much to his honour, and shows his heart was perfect with God), when he found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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