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1 Kings 15:12

He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

11Asa did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, as David his father did.

13He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:8So he did for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.

1 Kings 14:24There 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 22:46The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

2 Chronicles 14:2Asa did that which was good and right in the LORD his God’s eyes,

Zechariah 1:2“The LORD was very displeased with your fathers.

1 Peter 1:18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life 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 →

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