23 verses contain “Shrine” (in the KJV: 1, in the BSB: 23) — showing 1–23
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Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the
harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no
harlot in this place.
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the
shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No
shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no
harlot in this place.
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and
furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No
shrine prostitute has been here.’”
There shall be no
whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a
sodomite of the sons of Israel.
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a
shrine prostitute.
And the man
Micah had an house of gods, and made an
ephod, and
teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Now this man
Micah had a
shrine, and he made an
ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
Jeroboam also built
shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
For the saying which he
cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in
Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
for the message that he
cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in
Bethel and against all the
shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And the
remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father
Asa, he took out of the land.
He banished from the land the male
shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father
Asa.
Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the
Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.
And he
brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women
wove hangings for the
grove.
He also
tore down the quarters of the male
shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had
woven tapestries for Asherah.
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to
provoke the LORD to anger,
Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in
Bethel.
Just as
Josiah had done at
Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the
shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had
provoked the LORD to anger.
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
The
carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a
stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a
shrine.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his
imagery? for they say, The LORD
seeth us not; the LORD hath
forsaken the earth.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the
shrine of his own
idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has
forsaken the land.’”
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be
abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
At the head of every street you built your lofty
shrines and
degraded your beauty. With increasing
promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
harlot, in that thou scornest
hire;
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty
shrines in every public square, you were not even like a
prostitute, because you
scorned payment.
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and
tear down your lofty
shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine
jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit
lewdness.
I will not
punish your daughters when they commit
whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit
adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that
doth not understand shall fall.
I will not
punish your daughters when they
prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit
adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with
shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.