1 Kings 14:24,2 Kings 23:7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-31

Judah's story and Israel's are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam's reign may be laid together; and a sad account it is. I. Here is no good said of the king. All the account we have of him here is, 1. That he was forty-one years old when he began to reign, by which reckoning he was born in the last year of David, and had his education, and the forming of his mind, in the best days of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:24

And there were also Sodomites in the land , Such as were addicted to unnatural lusts between men and men, which the men of Sodom were guilty of, from whence they had their name: Jarchi interprets the word adultery and some versions render it whoremongers; and filthy actions of this nature, both by men and women, usually attended idolatrous practices among the heathens; in their temples and groves such wickednesses were privately perpetrated: and they did according to all the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 14:24

There were also sodomites in the land - קדשים kedeshim , consecrated persons; persons who had devoted themselves, in practices of the greatest impurity, to the service of the most impure idols. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-24

The Sin of Judah. Having discoursed of Jeroboam and the kingdom of Israel, the sacred historian now returns to Rehoboam and the sister kingdom of Judah. To have found a better state of things here would have been refreshing, but in this we are disappointed. How fearful was the moral state of the whole world in those days! I. JUDAH HAD FALLEN INTO THE GROSSEST IDOLATRY . 1 . He had multiplied high places . 2 . He had built many temples . 3 . He had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-31

Unfaithfulness and its rebuke. I. JUDAH 'S SIN . 1 . The nature of the transgression . The grossest idolatry was set side by side with the pure worship of God. The temple and its services were still HIS ( 1 Kings 14:28 ), but on every high hill and under every green tree were the images and altars of the false gods. The preservation of the pure worship of God is no proof that all is yielded which God demands. The heart may be full of the world's idolatries, of its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 14:24

And there were also Sodomites [ קָדֵשׁ , a collective noun = הַקְּדֵשִׁים ( 1 Kings 15:12 ) = consecrated persons or devotees, because they were set apart to the service of Astarte, the Dea Syria . It is clear from Deuteronomy 23:18 (Heb.) that male prostitutes are here spoken of, the name of the female being קְדֵשָׁה . The former is described in Deuteronomy 23:19 50. c . as a dog , the latter as a whore ] in the land [cf. 1 Kings 15:12 . It is highly... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 14:24

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. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 14:24

1 Kings 14:24. There were also sodomites in the land The kind of wickedness here referred to often attended idolatry, 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7; for among the heathen the most filthy things were practised in these shady, dark places, their groves: and such wickedness, it appears from the passages now quoted, existed at this time among the Israelites, who, out of devotion to some false god or other, prostituted their bodies, contrary to nature, to be abused in honour of those gods, in... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 14:21-31

Rehoboam’s reign in the south (14:21-31)The story returns to the kingdom of Judah. After the division of the kingdom, Rehoboam quickly strengthened the defences on his southern border, for he knew that Egypt was likely to support Jeroboam (cf. 11:40; see 2 Chronicles 11:5-12). For three years Rehoboam carried on the true worship of Yahweh. This was mainly because of the help he received from a large number of priests and Levites from the north who fled to Judah rather than participate in the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Kings 14:24

sodomites. Committers of the sin of Sodom (Genesis 19:0 ). Male prostitutes, dedicated to idolatry involving this sin. Connected with the 'Asherah. App-42 . Compare Deuteronomy 23:17 . Deuteronomy 15:12 ; Deu 22:46 . children = sons. read more

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