Prostitution

Male and female prostitutes served at the HIGH PLACES and, besides ceremonial prostitution, child
sacrifice was practiced.
1 Kings 14   1) ABIJAH being sick, JEROBOAM sent his wife disguised with presents to the prophet
                     AHIJAH at SHILOH.   5) AHIJAH, forewarned by GOD, denounced GOD's judgment.
                     17) ABIJAH died, and is buried.   19) NADAB succeeded JEROBOAM.
                     21) REHOBOAM's wicked reign.   25) SHISHAK spoiled Jerusalem.
                     29) ABIJAM succeeded REHOBOAM.
21 :   In JUDAH REHOBOAM son of SOLOMON had become king.   He was forty-one years old
         when he came to the throne, and he reigned for seventeen years IN JERUSALEM, THE CITY
         WHERE THE LORD HAD CHOSEN,  OUT OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL,  TO SET
         HIS NAME.
         REHOBOAM's MOTHER WAS A WOMAN OF AMMON called NAAMAH.
22 :   JUDAH DID WHAT WAS WRONG IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, ROUSING HIS
         JEALOUS INDIGNATION BY THE SINS THEY COMMITTED, which were beyond any-
         thing that their forefathers had done.
23 :   THEY ERECTED SHRINES,  SACRED PILLARS,  and SACRED POLES ON EVERY
         HIGH HILL and UNDER EVERY SPREADING TREE.
24 :   Worse still,    ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THERE WERE MALE PROSTITUTES
         ATTACHED TO the SHRINES, and the PEOPLE ADOPTED ALL THE ABOMINABLE
         PRACTICES OF THE NATIONS (heathens) WHOM THE LORD HAD DISPOSSESSED
         IN FAVOUR OF ISRAEL.
25 :   In the fifth year of REHOBOAM's reign King SHISHAK OF EGYPT attacked JERUSALEM,
26 :   and CARRIED AWAY THE TREASURES OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD and of the
         KING's palace; HE SEIZED EVERYTHING, including ALL THE GOLD SHIELDS made
         for SOLOMON.
27 :   King REHOBOAM REPLACED THEM WITH BRONZE SHIELDS and ENTRUSTED
         THEM TO THE OFFICERS OF THE ESCORT WHO GUARDED THE ENTRANCE OF
         THE PALACE.
28 :   WHENEVER THE KING ENTERD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,   THE ESCORT
         CARRIED THEM;  AFTERWARDS THEY RETURNED THEM TO THE GUARD-
         ROOM.