English Standard Version
1 Kings 15:12
12He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he banished the perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
Context of 1 Kings 15:12
10and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 11And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done. He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13He 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 burned it at the brook Kidron. 14But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
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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 14:24and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
- 1 Kings 22:46And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.
- Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
- Jude 1:7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
- 1 Kings 15:3And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
- 1 Kings 11:7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 14:23For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
- 2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
- Ezekiel 20:18"And I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
- Zechariah 1:2"The Lord was very angry with your fathers.
- 1 Peter 1:18knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as 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
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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
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