1 Kings 15:12
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.
Darby Translation
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 in the sight of Jehovah, as David his father.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46And the remainder of the sodomites, which were left in the days of his father Asa, he put away from out of the land.
2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did what was good and right in the sight of Jehovah his God;
Zechariah 1:2Jehovah hath been very wroth with your fathers.
1 Peter 1:18knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down 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 →