1 Kings 15:9-15

English Standard Version

Asa Reigns in Judah

⁹ In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah, ¹⁰ and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. ^11 (A)And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done. ¹² He put away the ^(B)male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed ^(C)all the idols that his fathers had made. ^13 (D)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and ^(E)burned it at the brook Kidron. ^14 (F)But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, ^(G)the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days. ¹⁵ And ^(H)he brought into the house of the Lord the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.