And there were also male temple prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah had cast out before the children of Israel.

And the rest of the male temple prostitutes, who had remained in the days of his father Asa, he removed out of the land.

For this reason God gives them up to vile passions. For even their women change the natural use for what is contrary to nature.

Likewise also the men, abandoning the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men with men performing what is shameful, and receiving the retribution within themselves, the penalty which is fitting for their error.

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not perfect toward Jehovah his God, as was the heart of his father David.

And Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of Jehovah his God,

He commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to do the Law and the commandment.

But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

I am Jehovah your God. Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them;

Jehovah has been wrathfully angry with your fathers.

Do not be as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed, saying, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not hear nor heed Me, says Jehovah.

But My Words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned back and said, As Jehovah of Hosts purposes to do to us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so He has dealt with us.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your vain way of life received by tradition from your fathers,