1 Kings 14:24

And there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which LORD drove out before the sons of Israel.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

23For they also built for them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

Leviticus 18:30Therefore ye shall keep my charge, that ye not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that ye not defile yourselves in it. I am LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 23:18Thou shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of LORD thy God for any vow, for even both these are an abomination to LORD thy God.

1 Kings 15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

2 Kings 23:7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were in the house of LORD where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

1 Corinthians 6:9Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:22-31

Rehoboam's Disgrace and Death. ( b. c. 960.) 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they… Read the whole commentary →

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