1 Kings 15:9-15
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Judah’s King Asa
9 In the twentieth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam,(A) Asa became king of Judah 10 and reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s[a] name was Maacah(B) daughter[b] of Abishalom.
11 Asa did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, as his ancestor David had done.(C) 12 He banished the male cult prostitutes(D) from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.(E) 13 He also(F) removed his grandmother[c] Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it(G) in the Kidron Valley.(H) 14 The high places were not taken away;(I) but Asa’s heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.(J) 15 He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the Lord’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.(K)
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- 1 Kings 15:10 Lit mother’s
- 1 Kings 15:10 Possibly granddaughter; 2Ch 13:2
- 1 Kings 15:13 Lit mother
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