1 Kings 14:24
There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
25And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
Cross References
Genesis 19:5And they called Lot, and said to him: Where are the men that came in to thee at night? bring them out hither that we may know them:
Leviticus 18:30Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 23:18Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.
1 Kings 15:12And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
2 Kings 23:7He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.
1 Corinthians 6:9Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
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 →