1 Kings 22:46

Jehoshaphat’s father Asa had tried to expel the male prostitutes that stayed at the pagan shrines, but some of them were still there. Jehoshaphat got rid of them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

In Context

45All the other things that happened while Jehoshaphat was ruling, and the great things that he did and the victories his troops won, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.

47At that time, there was no king in Edom; a ruler who had been appointed by Jehoshaphat ruled there.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:5They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to your house this evening? Bring them out, so that we can have sex with them!” [EUP]

Judges 19:22While they were having a good/joyful time together, some wicked men from that city surrounded the house and started to bang on the door. They shouted to the old man, “Bring out to us the man who has come to your house. We want to have sex with him.”

1 Kings 14:29Everything else that Rehoboam did is written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.

Romans 1:26So, God allowed the non-Jews to do shameful sexual things that they strongly desired. As a result, many women did not have natural sexual relations with their husbands [EUP]. Instead, they were doing sexual actions with other women [EUP].

1 Timothy 1:10He condemns those who are sexually immoral and those who are homosexuals. He condemns those who kidnap/steal people in order to make them slaves. He condemns those who lie and those who promise something strongly but do not do what they promised. He condemns every other action that is contrary to our true teaching.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 22:42-53

Jehoshaphat's Death. ( b. c. 897.) 41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord : nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people… Read the whole commentary →

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