1 Kings 15:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

New Living Translation
He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

English Standard Version
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Berean Study Bible
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

New American Standard Bible
He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

NASB 1995
He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

NASB 1977
He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land, and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

Amplified Bible
He expelled the male cult prostitutes (sodomites) from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers [Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam] had made.

Christian Standard Bible
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.

Contemporary English Version
He forced the prostitutes at the shrines to leave the country, and he got rid of the idols his ancestors had made.

Good News Translation
He expelled from the country all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan places of worship, and he removed all the idols his predecessors had made.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He forced the male temple prostitutes out of the land and got rid of the idols his father had made.

International Standard Version
He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and destroyed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

NET Bible
He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

New King James Version
And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

King James 2000 Bible
And he took away the male prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

New Heart English Bible
And he banished the male temple prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

World English Bible
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

American King James Version
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

American Standard Version
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

A Faithful Version
And he took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Darby Bible Translation
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

English Revised Version
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the lande, and put away all the idoles that his fathers had made.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And he toke away the male stewes out of the lande, and put away all the abhominable idols that his fathers had made.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And he remoued ye whoremongers out of the londe, and put downe all the Idols that his fathers had made.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and removes the whoremongers out of the land, and turns aside all the idols that his fathers made;

Young's Literal Translation
and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

Smith's Literal Translation
And he will take away the holy places from the land, and he will turn aside all the blocks which his fathers made.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And he took away the effeminate from the land. And he purged all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And he removed fornicators from the land, and he removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Lamsa Bible
And he put the Sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
















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