12 And he took away the Sodomites out of the land, and put away all the idols that his fathers had made.

13 And he [a]put down (A)Maachah his mother also from her estate, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa destroyed her idols, and burnt them by the brook Kidron.

14 But they put not down the high places. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was [b]upright with the Lord all his days.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 15:13 Neither kindred nor authority ought to be regarded, when they blaspheme God, and become idolaters, but must be punished.
  2. 1 Kings 15:14 For in that that he suffered them to worship God in other places, than he had appointed, it came of ignorance, and not of malice.

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