2 Kings 23:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

2 Kings 23:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Ezekiel 16:16
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
1 Kings 14:24
And 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.
Exodus 35:25-26
And 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. …
1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

Topics

Adultery Bestiality Church Congregation Copulation Dowry Ecclesiasticism Fraternity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-24)

We have here an account of such a reformation as we have not met with in all the history of the kings of Judah, such thorough riddance made of all the abominable things and such foundations laid of a glorious good work; and here I cannot but wonder at two things:—1. That so many wicked things should have got in, and kept standing so long, as we find here removed. 2. That notwithstanding the remova…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. brake down the houses of the sodomites--not solid houses, but tents, called elsewhere [2Ki 17:30] Succoth-benoth, “the booths of the young women,” who were devoted to the service of Asherah, for which they made embroidered hangings, and in which they gave themselves to unbridled revelry and lust. Or the hangings might be for Asherah itself, as it is a popular superstition in the East to hang pi…