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


In Context

4 The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.

5 He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

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

8 He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

2 Kings 23:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:7He 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.

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 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.