1 Kings 15:12
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.
1 Kings 14:24and there were also sodomites in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46(22-47) And the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
2 Chronicles 14:2(14-1) And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God;
Zechariah 1:2'The LORD hath been sore displeased with 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 →