1 Kings 15:12
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Berean Standard Bible
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 eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
1 Kings 22:46He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
Zechariah 1:2“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
1 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
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 →