And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
Brake down the houses of the sodomites, х haqªdeeshiym (H6945)] - of the males consecrated to Astarte (Venus) (see the notes at Deuteronomy 23:18; 1 Kings 14:24).
Where the women wove hangings for the grove (Asherah) х baatiym (H1004)] - not solid houses, but tents, or small tent-like temples, which were regarded as holy and worshipped along with the deities, which they contained (Amos 5:26); called elsewhere Succoth-benoth, the booths of the young women who were devoted to the service of Asherah, for which they made embroidered hangings, and in which they gave themselves to unbridled revelry and lust. Or, the hangings might be for Asherah itself, as it is a popular superstition in the East to hang pieces of cloth on trees (Ezekiel 16:16).