1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the effeminate from the land. And he purged all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
11And Asa did what was right before the sight of the Lord, just as his father David did.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8And he acted in this manner for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and immolating to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24Moreover, the effeminate were in the land, and they committed all the abominations of the peoples that the Lord had destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46But the rest of the words of Jehoshaphat, and his works that he did, and the battles, were these not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 14:2Now Asa did what was good and pleasing in the sight of his God. And he overturned the altars of foreign worship, and the high places.
Zechariah 1:2The Lord has become angry over the resentful anger of your fathers.
1 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of 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 →