1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 15:12 in other translations
| BSB | He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made; |
| DARBY | And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made. |
| BBE | Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made. |
| Webster | And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. |
What does 1 Kings 15:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 15:10-13
10-13. his mother's name was Maachah--She was properly his grandmother, and she is here called "the king's mother," from the post of dignity which at the beginning of his reign she possessed. Asa, as a constitutional monarch, acted like the pious David, laboring to abolish the traces and polluting practices of idolatry, and in pursuance of his impartial conduct, he did not spare delinquents even of the highest rank.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 15:9-24
Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have…
1 Kings 15:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 15:12
- 1 Kings 22:46
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 1 Kings 14:23-24
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Peter 1:18
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
- 1 Kings 11:7-8
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
- 2 Chronicles 14:2-5
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God: For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
- Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
- Romans 1:26-27
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
- Ezekiel 20:18-19
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
- Zechariah 1:2-6
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? …
- 1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
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Context
- 1 Kings 15:11
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
- 1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 15:13
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 15:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque quitó los sodomitas de la tierra, y quitó todas las suciedades que sus padres habían hecho. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et il fit disparaître du pays les hommes voués à la prostitution, et ôta toutes les idoles que ses pères avaient faites. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er schaffte die Buhler aus dem Lande und tat alle Götzen hinweg, die seine Väter gemacht hatten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et abstulit effeminatos de terra, purgavitque universas sordes idolorum quæ fecerant patres ejus. |