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1 Kings 15:12

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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In Context

11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

13And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:8And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

Zechariah 1:2The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

1 Peter 1:18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 15:10-25

Asa's Reign. ( b. c. 914.) 9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord , as did David his father. 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a… Read the whole commentary →

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