7He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes, which were in the temple of the Lord and where women did weaving for Asherah.


In Context

4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

5 He did away with the pagan priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem-those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.

6 He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.

7 He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes, which were in the temple of the Lord and where women did weaving for Asherah.

8 Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the shrines at the gates-at the entrance to the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate.

9 Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

2nd Kings 23:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:7He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove tents for the Asherah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:7And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that are in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.