And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
Ver. 46. And the remnant of the sodomites.] Called Cedeshim by antiphrasis; and Meritorii quia mercentur et quaestum faciunt corpore: prostituendo illud vitio ad explendam libidinem. This is "filthy lucre," indeed.