1 KINGS 14:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.”
and there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the people of Israel — Rehoboam's Judah embraces fertility cult practices including temple prostitution. The phrase וְגַם־קְדֵשִׁים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ (there were also male shrine prostitutes) invokes strictly forbidden practice. The phrase עָשׂוּ כְּכֹל הַתּוֹעֲבוֹת הַגּוֹיִם (they did according to all the abominations of the nations) frames apostasy as regression into Canaanite paganism.
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