SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:7
Asimismo derribó las casas de los sodomitas que estaban en la Casa del SEŃOR, en las cuales tejían las mujeres pabellones para el bosque.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 23:7
Verse 7. The houses of the sodomites] We have already often met with these µyŤdq kedeshim or consecrated persons. The word implies all kinds of prostitutes, as well as abusers of themselves with mankind. Wove hangings for the grove.] For Asherah; curtains or tent coverings for the places where the rites of the impure goddess were performed. See at the end of chap. xxi. 26.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites that were by the house of the Lord , etc.] 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 1:27,28) 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-14 - What abundance of wickedness in Judah and Jerusalem! One would not have believed it possible, that in Judah, where God was known, in Israel where his name was great, in Salem, in Zion, where his dwelling-plac was, such abominations should be found. Josiah had reigned eightee years, and had himself set the people a good example, and kept u religion according to the Divine law; yet, when he came to search for idolatry, the depth and extent were very great. Both common history and the records of God's word, teach, that all the real godliness of goodness ever found on earth, is derived from the new-creating Spiri of Jesus Christ.
Original Hebrew
ויתץ 5422 את 853 בתי 1004 הקדשׁים 6945 אשׁר 834 בבית 1004 יהוה 3068 אשׁר 834 הנשׁים 802 ארגות 707 שׁם 8033 בתים 1004 לאשׁרה׃ 842
