1 Kings 15:12

and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

Young's Literal Translation

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 doth that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father,

13and also Maachah his mother — he turneth her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for a shrine, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and burneth [it] by the brook Kidron;

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:8and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.

1 Kings 14:24and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 22:46And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land;

2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa doth that which is good, and that which is right, in the eyes of Jehovah his God,

Zechariah 1:2'Jehovah was wroth against your fathers — wrath!

1 Peter 1:18having known that, not with corruptible things — silver or gold — were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by 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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