seekeroftruth
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1 Kings 14:21 Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
22 Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done. 23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. 24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.
25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. 26 He carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. 27 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. 28 Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
29 As for the other events of Rehoboam’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? 30 There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 31 And Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah[d] his son succeeded him as king.
22 Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done. 23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. 24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.
25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. 26 He carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. 27 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. 28 Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
29 As for the other events of Rehoboam’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? 30 There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 31 And Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah[d] his son succeeded him as king.
d. 1 Kings 14:31 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 12:16); most Hebrew manuscripts Abijam
I started out with the easy English site this morning.
The Bible does not say anything good about Rehoboam. During his rule, the people turned away from God. They were worse than in the time of the Book of Judges.
The stones were like images of male gods. Both men and women offered their bodies for sex. They did this as part of their religion. People believed that this would give them good crops. The gods would send rain and sun.
The original inhabitants of the country called Canaan followed a wicked religion. These practises were part of that religion. Because that religion was so evil, God forced those people to leave the land. He gave the land to his own people, that is, the Israelites. He warned his people about those religions. They should not imitate the behaviour of the people who used to live in their country. They should not worship the false gods. And they should not marry anyone from the nations that used to own the land. Solomon had married Rehoboam’s mother, who was from the nation called Ammon. And Solomon worshipped false gods when he was old. During Rehoboam’s rule, the people were following those evil religions and their wicked practices. These sins were terrible. They caused God to be angry.
The army from Egypt defeated Rehoboam’s army. So the king of Egypt took away all the valuable things in the temple. Rehoboam replaced gold shields with cheaper ones that he made out of bronze (a brown metal).
Rehoboam and Jeroboam were always at war with each other. They did not always fight but they always had to be ready for war.
The stones were like images of male gods. Both men and women offered their bodies for sex. They did this as part of their religion. People believed that this would give them good crops. The gods would send rain and sun.
The original inhabitants of the country called Canaan followed a wicked religion. These practises were part of that religion. Because that religion was so evil, God forced those people to leave the land. He gave the land to his own people, that is, the Israelites. He warned his people about those religions. They should not imitate the behaviour of the people who used to live in their country. They should not worship the false gods. And they should not marry anyone from the nations that used to own the land. Solomon had married Rehoboam’s mother, who was from the nation called Ammon. And Solomon worshipped false gods when he was old. During Rehoboam’s rule, the people were following those evil religions and their wicked practices. These sins were terrible. They caused God to be angry.
The army from Egypt defeated Rehoboam’s army. So the king of Egypt took away all the valuable things in the temple. Rehoboam replaced gold shields with cheaper ones that he made out of bronze (a brown metal).
Rehoboam and Jeroboam were always at war with each other. They did not always fight but they always had to be ready for war.
This is from GodVine.
Sodomites - literally, " (men) consecrated." The men in question were in fact "consecrated" to the mother of the gods, the famous "Dea Syra," whose priests, or rather devotees, they were considered to be. The nature of the ancient idolatries is best understood by recollecting that persons of this degraded class practiced their abominable trade under a religious sanction.
It's been going on for a very very long time. I ran into it at a "church" that met on Water Street in Baltimore in the late '70s.
Let's put this in family context. Noah had a couple of daughters who were afraid the flood was actually the end of the world and they would never have children unless they slept with their father. Sucky... I know... but it's recorded in Genesis 19. One of those girls had a son, Ben-ammi. This was the beginning of the Ammonites. The land they settled was in Canaan... actually it's the area around the modern day city of Amman, Jordan. Now when God brought the Israelites to Canaan, He told the Israelites to totally destroy the Ammonites. He knew the Ammonites were worshiping shining little idols. God also knew the Israelites would wind up worshiping them. BUT, the Israelites didn't get totally destroyed and wise king Solomon, good king David's son, married an Ammonite and that son brought those shining little idols into the homes of the people. With those shining little idols... came church practices... like prostitution.... and since it came through "the church" it was deemed ok over time... and people just got hooked. Since it happens in church it has to be ok.... right?
IMHO That's probably how male prostitution got into the church.
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