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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 that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel. (1 Kings 14:24)
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1 Kings 15:12• 12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made. (1 Kings 15:12)
d
Ezek. 8:14• 14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Jehovah'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 make for thyself high places with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more. (Ezek. 16:16)
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houses.

More on:

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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• 4Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter.
 5And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee tonight? bring them out to 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 that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel. (1 Kings 14:24)
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1 Kings 15:12• 12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made. (1 Kings 15:12)
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1 Kings 22:46• 46And the remainder of the sodomites, which were left in the days of his father Asa, he put away from out of the land. (1 Kings 22:46)
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2 Chron. 34:33• 33And Josiah removed all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made to serve all that were found in Israel, —to serve Jehovah their God: all his days they did not depart from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 34:33)
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Rom. 1:26‑27• 26On this account God gave them up to vile passions; for both their females exchanged the natural use into the unnatural,
 27and likewise the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males working out unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense 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 Jehovah'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 make for thyself high places with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more. (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 decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah. (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."

W. Kelly 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 tents for the Asherah.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)