1 Kings 14:24

and there were also sodomites in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy 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 unto Lot, and said unto him: 'Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.'

Leviticus 18:30Therefore shall ye keep My charge, that ye do not any of these abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 23:18(23-19) Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination unto the 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 the LORD, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.

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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