1 Kings 14:24 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

English ASV

and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

English Amplified

There were also sodomites (male cult prostitutes) in the land. They did all the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the Israelites.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

There were also sodomites (male cult prostitutes) in the land. They did all the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the Israelites.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.

English EASY 2024

In Judah there were even temples which had male prostitutes. The people of Judah did the same evil things as the Canaanite nations did. The Lord had chased those people out of the land so that the Israelites could live there.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

There were also men who served other gods by selling their bodies for sex. So the people of Judah were worse than the people who had lived in the land before them. And the Lord took the land away from those people to give it to the Israelites.

and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practiced all the shameful things done by the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country.

English God's Word - GW 1995

There were even male prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah did all the disgusting practices done by the nations that the Lord had forced out of the Israelites' way.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

there were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.

English KJV 1611

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.

English LSB

There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

There were also male cult prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord cast out before the Israelites.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

There were also cult prostitutes in the land. Judah imitated all the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD had cleared out of the Israelites' way.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the LORD had driven out from before the Israelites.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

There were even male prostitutes at the temples in the land. The people took part in all of the practices of other nations. The Lord hated those practices. He had driven those nations out to make room for the people of Israel.

English NIV

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.

English NKJ 1982

And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

English NLT

There were even shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

there were also male temple prostitutes in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nation which the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

There was homosexuality throughout the land, and the people of Judah became as depraved as the heathen nations which the Lord drove out to make room for his people.

English Tyndale 1537

And thereto there was a stews of male children in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.