1 Kings 15:12
10 and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13 He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
14 The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- KJV
- And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- WEB
- He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- ASV
- And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- DARBY
- And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.
- BLB
- And he banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- ÅB
- Han drev tempel-bolerne ut av landet og fikk bort alle de motbydelige avguder som hans fedre hadde gjort.
- OTB
- Han utviste også de mannlige tempelprostituerte fra landet, og fjernet alle avgudene som hans forfedre hadde laget.
- B1930
- Han drev tempel-bolerne ut av landet og fikk bort alle de motbydelige avguder som hans fedre hadde gjort.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 22:46
He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
Read in context1 Kings 14:23–24
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Read in context1 Peter 1:18
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
Read in context1 Kings 11:7–8
At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
Read in context2 Chronicles 14:2–5
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
Read in contextJude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
Read in contextRomans 1:26–27
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:18–19
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
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