1 Kings 15:12
And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 David his father.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he went not after the Lord, as David his father.
1 Kings 14:24And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his mighty deeds, whatever he did, behold, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 14:2And he removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke the pillars in pieces, and cut down the groves:
Zechariah 1:2The Lord has been very angry 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 →