2 Reis 23:7

7 Também derrubou as acomodações dos prostitutos cultuais, que ficavam no templo do SENHOR, onde as mulheres teciam para Aserá.

2 Reis 23:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 23:7

And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites that were by the
house of the Lord
Near the temple were apartments, in which men, the worshippers of idols, prostituted their bodies to each other; committing that unnatural sin with one another, which has its name from Sodom, and from which those are so called, and which sin they committed in honour of the idols they worshipped; to such vile affections were they, in a judicial manner, delivered up, because of their idolatry; see ( Romans 1:27 Romans 1:28 ) the word signifies "Holy Ones", they being called so by an antiphrasis; though Abarbinel thinks these were the idolatrous priests, whom the worshippers of idols reckoned "holy", and so built houses for them near the temple to lodge in; the Targum is,

``and broke down the houses of things consecrated to idols,''

where they were put; and Theodoret on the place observes, that by an homonymy, they called the demons or idols themselves "Holy Ones"; and it is not likely, indeed, that the Sodomites should be

where the women wove hangings for the grove;
that is, for Astarte, as the same writer observes: or "curtains", as the Jewish writers generally interpret it, in which either the idol was enclosed, or these made apartments for the idolaters to commit their abominable wickedness privately; though the Syriac and Arabic versions are,

``they wove garments for the idols that were there;''

and so the Septuagint version, of the Complutensian edition; that is, they wove garments for the goddess Astarte, which they dressed her with: the word signifies "houses", and may mean the shrines of the idol made of woven work.

2 Reis 23:7 In-Context

5 E eliminou os sacerdotes pagãos nomeados pelos reis de Judá para queimarem incenso nos altares idólatras das cidades de Judá e dos arredores de Jerusalém, aqueles que queimavam incenso a Baal, ao Sol e à Lua, às constelações e a todos os exércitos celestes.

6 Também mandou levar o poste sagrado do templo do SENHOR para o vale de Cedrom, fora de Jerusalém, para ser queimado e reduzido a cinzas, que foram espalhadas sobre os túmulos de um cemitério público.

7 Também derrubou as acomodações dos prostitutos cultuais, que ficavam no templo do SENHOR, onde as mulheres teciam para Aserá.

8 Josias trouxe todos os sacerdotes das cidades de Judá e, desde Geba até Berseba, profanou os altares onde os sacerdotes haviam queimado incenso. Derrubou os altares idólatras junto às portas, inclusive o altar da entrada da porta de Josué, o governador da cidade, que fica à esquerda da porta da cidade.

9 Embora os sacerdotes dos altares não servissem no altar do SENHOR em Jerusalém, comiam pães sem fermento junto com os sacerdotes, seus colegas.