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.
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There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
And 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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)Judah’s story and Israel’s are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam’s reign may be laid together; and a sad account it is. I. Here is no good said of the king. All the account we have of him here is, 1. That he was forty-one years old when he began to reign, by which reckoning he was born in the…
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