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 also cult prostitutes in the land, and they practiced all the disgusting religious rituals of the nations that the LORD had driven out ahead of the Israelites.
This verse describes how Israel had adopted the corrupt religious practices of the pagan nations God had previously removed from the land.
📚 Historical Context
During the reign of King Rehoboam in Judah, the nation had split from Israel after Solomon's death, and the people began adopting the idolatrous and immoral customs of the surrounding Canaanite nations. This included the practice of sacred prostitution, which was seen as an abomination mirroring the behaviors that led God to drive out those nations when He brought the Israelites into the Promised Land. As a result, Judah's unfaithfulness invited divine judgment, as described in the broader narrative of the kings.
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