1 Kings 15:12 Cross References - Rotherham

¹² and he put away the male devotees out of the land,––and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

⁷ Then, did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem,––and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon; ⁸ and, thus, did he for all his foreign wives,––who burned incense and offered sacrifices unto their gods.

²³ And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems,––upon every high hill, and under every green tree. ²⁴ Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land,––they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

³ And he walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him,––and his heart was not blameless with Yahweh his God, like the heart of David his father.

⁴⁶ Moreover, the rest of the male devotees who remained in the days of Asa his father, he consumed out of the land.

² And Asa did that which was good and that which was right, in the eyes of Yahweh his God; ³ and took away the foreign altars, and the high places,––and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut in twain the Sacred Stems; ⁴ and bade Judah seek Yahweh, God of their fathers,–and execute the law, and the commandment; ⁵ and removed from all the cities of Judah, the high places, and the sun–images,––and the kingdom became quiet before him.

¹⁸ But I said unto their children, in the desert, In the statutes of your fathers, let it not be that ye walk, And their regulations, let it not be that ye observe,––And with their manufactured gods, let it not be that ye defile yourselves. ¹⁹ I, Yahweh, am your God, In my statutes, walk ye,––And my regulations, observe ye and do them;

² Yahweh, was sore displeased, with your fathers: ³ therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Return ye unto me, urgeth Yahweh of hosts,––that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts. ⁴ Do not become like your fathers, unto whom the former prophets, proclaimed, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Return, I pray you, from your wicked ways, and from your wicked practices; but they heard not, nor hearkened unto me, declareth Yahweh. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and, the prophets, to times age–abiding, do they live? ⁶ Howbeit, as for my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and so they returned and said, Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our practices, So hath he dealt with us?

²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature,–– ²⁷ In like manner also, even the males, leaving the natural use of the female, flamed out in their eager desire one for another, males with males, the indecency, effecting,––and, the necessary recompence of their error, within themselves, duly receiving; ––

¹⁸ Knowing that, Not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, have ye been redeemed from your unmeaning behaviour paternally handed down,

⁷ As, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having in like manner to these given themselves over to fornication, and gone away after other kind of flesh, lie exposed as an example, a penalty of age–abiding fire, undergoing.