1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David his father:
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did, and his bat- ties, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high places.
Zechariah 1:2The Lord hath been exceeding angry with your fathers.
1 Peter 1:18Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition 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 →