1 Kings 15:12
Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
In Context
11Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46\22:45\Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;
Zechariah 1:2The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:
1 Peter 1:18Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
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 →