2 Kings 23:7

And he pulled down the house of the + 23:7 The Gr. is from the Heb. word. sodomites that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove tents for the grove.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kedron, and burned it at the brook Kedron, and reduced it to + 23:6 Or, ashes. powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchres of the sons of the people.

8And he brought up all the priest from the cities of Juda, and defiled the high places where the priests burned incense, from Gaebal even to Bersabee; and he pulled down the house of the gates that was by the door of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

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Cross References

Exodus 35:25And every woman skilled in her heart to spin with her hands, + 35:25 Gr. they brought. brought spun articles, the blue, and purple, and scarlet and fine linen.

1 Kings 14:24And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did + 14:24 Gr. of. according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed + 14:24 Gr. from the face of. from before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 22:46-50 And the rest of the + 22:46-50 Gr. words. acts of Josaphat, and his mighty deeds, whatever he did, behold, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

Ezekiel 8:14And he brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and, behold there were women sitting there lamenting for Thammuz.

Hosea 2:13And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the Lord.

Hosea 4:14And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 23:5-25

Josiah Reforms Judah. ( b. c. 623.) 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the… Read the whole commentary →

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