1 Kings 15:12

1 Kings 15:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
• New International Version (NIV)He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
• English Standard Version (ESV)He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Context of 1 Kings 15:12

10and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. 11Asa did what was right in the Lord’s sight, as his ancestor David had done. He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made. 13He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14The high places were not taken away, but Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his entire life.

1 Kings 15:12 word by word

וַיַּעֲבֵ֥ר הַקְּדֵשִׁ֖ים מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיָּ֙סַר֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַגִּלֻּלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשׂ֖וּ אֲבֹתָֽיו׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And he took awayעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• the sodomitesקָדֵשׁqâdêsh · male cult prostituteH6945
• out of the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• and removedסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: removeH5493
• all the idolsגִּלּוּלgillûl gillûl · idolH1544
• that his fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• had madeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213

Cross-references for 1 Kings 15:12

• 1 Kings 14:24there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.
• 1 Kings 22:46He eradicated from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.
• Romans 1:26For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
• Jude 1:7Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
• 1 Kings 15:3Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.
• 1 Kings 11:7At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.
• 1 Kings 14:23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
• 2 Chronicles 14:2Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.
• Ezekiel 20:18“‘Then I said to their children in the wilderness, “Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.
• Zechariah 1:2“The Lord was extremely angry with your ancestors.
• 1 Peter 1:18For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

Commentaries on 1 Kings 15:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12The sodomites - הקדשים hakkedeshim ; literally, the holy or consecrated ones. See on 1 Kings 14:24; (note).Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-24Verses 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 power are happy when thus…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-13did 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…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1310-13. 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.Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Kings 15:12

• Asa
• Idolatry
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Maachah
• Rulers
• Sodomites
• Sodomy
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• Asa
• Baasha
• Proclamation
• Sodomites
• Abishag
• Chemosh
• Crime; Crimes
• God
• Harlot
• Male

Commentaries on 1 Kings 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings