1 Kings 15:12

12 He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.^[a]

1 Kings 15:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 15:12

And he took away the Sodomites out of the land
Which were in the times of Rehoboam, ( 1 Kings 14:24 ) , and continued in his father's reign; those he took away, either by driving them out of the land, or by putting them to death according to the law of God, ( Leviticus 20:13 ) even as many of them as he had knowledge of, for some remained, see ( 1 Kings 22:46 ) ,

and removed all the idols that his fathers had made;
or suffered to be made, as Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam, see ( 1 Kings 11:7 ) ( 14:23 ) ( 15:3 ) .

1 Kings 15:12 In-Context

10 he reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

11 Asa did what was right in the Lord's eyes, as his ancestor David had done.

12 He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.

13 He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

14 The high places were not taken away; but Asa's heart was completely with the Lord his entire life.

Footnotes

• [a]. 2 Ch 14:2-3