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2 Kings 23

2 Kings 23:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he brake down
nathats (Hebrew #5422)
to tear down
KJV usage: beat down, break down (out), cast down, destroy, overthrow, pull down, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-thats'
Origin: a primitive root
the houses
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
b of the sodomites
qadesh (Hebrew #6945)
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
KJV usage: sodomite, unclean.
Pronounce: kaw-dashe'
Origin: from 6942
, that were by the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, where the women
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
d wove
'arag (Hebrew #707)
to plait or weave
KJV usage: weaver(-r).
Pronounce: aw-rag'
Origin: a primitive root
πhangings
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
for the grove
'asherah (Hebrew #842)
from 833; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
KJV usage: grove. Compare 6253.
Pronounce: ash-ay-raw'
Origin: or masheyrah {ash-ay-raw'}
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1 Kings 14:24• 24And 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. (1 Kings 14:24)
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1 Kings 15:12• 12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (1 Kings 15:12)
d
Ezek. 8:14• 14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. (Ezek. 8:14)
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Ezek. 16:16• 16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colors, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. (Ezek. 16:16)
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houses.

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Grove,
Hanging,
House,
Sodomites,
Woman

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the sodomites.
Gen. 19:4‑5• 4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
 5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. (Gen. 19:4‑5)
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1 Kings 14:24• 24And 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. (1 Kings 14:24)
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1 Kings 15:12• 12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (1 Kings 15:12)
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1 Kings 22:46• 46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. (1 Kings 22:46)
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2 Chron. 34:33• 33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 34:33)
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Rom. 1:26‑27• 26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. (Rom. 1:26‑27)
where.
Ex. 35:25‑26• 25And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
 26And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair. (Ex. 35:25‑26)
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Ezek. 8:14• 14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. (Ezek. 8:14)
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Ezek. 16:16• 16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colors, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. (Ezek. 16:16)
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Hos. 2:13• 13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord. (Hos. 2:13)
hangings.
Heb. houses.
• He does away with the prostitution which had been widespread at Jerusalem under guise of the worship of Astarte. (“The Book of the Covenant and the Sanctification of the People: 2 Kings 23:1-20” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tentse for the Asherah.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "houses."