1 Kings 15:12 - Printer Friendly

ESV: He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

NIV: He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

NASB: He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

CSB: He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.

NLT: He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

KJV: And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

NKJV: And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

This was originally the first half of a combined text. First Kings records the end of David's reign and the rule of Solomon. After this, the kingdom is split in two. The northern nation of Israel no longer submits to the king of the southern nation, called Judah. The prophet Elijah first appears in this book. The kings mostly fail to honor the Lord. They participate in idolatry and other sins. This will eventually result in their conquest and exile, as depicted throughout the books of Chronicles.

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