1 Kings 15:12

Modern

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Traditional

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Literal

And he banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Latin

…et abstulit effeminatos de terra, purgavitque universas sordes idolorum quæ fecerant patres ejus.

Hebrew

English

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

did what was right: Besides the reforms mentioned here, the writer of Chronicles notes the positive spiritual influence of God's prophet Azariah on the king (2 Chronicles 15:1–7). Asa also gathered a large assembly to renew the covenant with the Lord (2 Chronicles 15:9–15).
shrine prostitutes: See 1 Kings 14:23–24. Asa worked to limit idolatry and pagan fertility rituals, even removing Maacah from her powerful position as queen mother (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 15:16).
The Kidron Valley was where reforming kings of Judah destroyed pagan idols (2 Kings 23:4–15; 2 Chronicles 29:16; 30:14).

Theme notes and profiles

1 Kings 22:46
He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
1 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.
Romans 1:26–27
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Jude 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.
2 Chronicles 14:2–5
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
1 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,
1 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.
Zechariah 1:2–6
“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
Ezekiel 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.
1 Kings 15:3
And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.