1 Könige 15:13

13 Dazu setzte er auch sein Mutter Maacha ab, daß sie nicht mehr Herrin war, weil sie ein Greuelbild gemacht hatte der Ascherah. Und Asa rottete aus ihr Greuelbild und verbrannte es am Bach Kidron.

1 Könige 15:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 15:13

And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being
queen
From the kingdom, as the Targum; from having any share in the government, as she might have had during his minority, his mother being dead, as some conjecture; and not only took away her power and authority, but all the ensigns of it, and perhaps forbid her the court: or he removed her from the queen, his own wife, that she might not be corrupted by her; or rather it was from presiding over the rites of the idol next mentioned, and the worshipping of it:

because she had made an idol in a grove;
which had its name from horror and trembling; either because it was of a terrible aspect, or injected horror into its worshippers, or brought terrible calamities and judgments upon them: according to some Jewish writers ^F18, it was a Priapus, of an obscene figure; and so others ^F19, who suppose she presided over the sacred rites of this impure deity, the same with Baalpeor; and the Heathens used to place Priapus in their gardens ^F20, to fright away birds, (See Gill on Jeremiah 49:16), others take it to be Pan, from whence the word "Panic", used for any great fright:

and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron:
and cast the ashes of it into it, that none might have any profit by it, the gold and silver on it, and in indignation to it, see ( Exodus 32:20 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 T. Bab. Avodah Zarah, fol. 44. 1.
F19 Vid. D. Herbert de Cherbury de Relig. Gent. c. 4. p. 34. Lyram in loc.
F20 "----custos es pauperis horti", Virgil. Bucol. Ecl. 7. ver. 34. & Georgic. l. 4. ver. 110. "----furum aviumque maxima formido", Horat. Sermon. l. 1. ode 8.

1 Könige 15:13 In-Context

11 Und Asa tat was dem HERRN wohl gefiel, wie sein Vater David,

12 und tat die Hurer aus dem Lande und tat ab alle Götzen, die seine Väter gemacht hatten.

13 Dazu setzte er auch sein Mutter Maacha ab, daß sie nicht mehr Herrin war, weil sie ein Greuelbild gemacht hatte der Ascherah. Und Asa rottete aus ihr Greuelbild und verbrannte es am Bach Kidron.

14 Aber die Höhen taten sie nicht ab. Doch war das Herz Asas rechtschaffen an dem HERRN sein Leben lang.

15 Und das Silber und Gold und Gefäß, das sein Vater geheiligt hatte, und was von ihm selbst geheiligt war, brachte er ein zum Hause des HERRN.