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21 So he asked the men of that place, “Where is the prostitute,[a] the one by the roadside in Enaim?” But they answered, “No prostitute has been here.” 22 He went back to Judah and told him, “I did not find her; and besides, the men of the place said, ‘No prostitute has been here.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 38:21 Prostitute: the Hebrew term qedesha, lit., “consecrated woman,” designates a woman associated with a sanctuary whose activities could include prostitution; cf. Dt 23:18; Hos 4:14, where the same Hebrew word is used. In 38:15 and 24 the common word for prostitute, zona, is used.

21 He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute(A) who was beside the road at Enaim?”

“There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.

22 So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here.’”

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24 There were also pagan priests in the land. Judah imitated all the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out of the Israelites’ way.

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24 There were even male shrine prostitutes(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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12 banishing the pagan priests from the land and removing all the idols his ancestors had made.

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12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes(A) from the land and got rid of all the idols(B) his ancestors had made.

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46 The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, with his valor, what he did and how he fought, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

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46 He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes(A) who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa.

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He tore down the apartments of the cult prostitutes in the house of the Lord, where the women wove garments for the Asherah.(A)

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He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes(A) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

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14 I will not punish your daughters for their prostitution,
    nor your daughters-in-law for their adultery,
Because the men themselves consort with prostitutes,
    and with temple women[a] they offer sacrifice!
Thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:14 Temple women: plural of Heb. qedesha; the exact import of the term is disputed. See notes on Gn 38:21 and Dt 23:18–19.

14 “I will not punish your daughters
    when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
    when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots(A)
    and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes(B)
    a people without understanding(C) will come to ruin!(D)

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