1 Kings 15:12
and he put away the male devotees out of the land,—and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 Yahweh,—like David his father;
Cross References
1 Kings 11:8and, thus, did he for all his foreign wives,—who burned incense and offered sacrifices unto their gods.
1 Kings 14:24Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land,—they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
1 Kings 22:46Moreover, the rest of the male devotees who remained in the days of Asa his father, he consumed out of the land.
2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did that which was good and that which was right, in the eyes of Yahweh his God;
Zechariah 1:2Yahweh, was sore displeased, with your fathers:
1 Peter 1:18Knowing that, Not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, have ye been redeemed from your unmeaning behaviour paternally handed down,
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 →