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

10He ruled 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother was named Maacah, daughter of Abishalom. 11Asa did what the Lord considered right, as his ancestor David had done. He forced the male temple prostitutes out of the land and got rid of the idols his father had made. 13He also removed his grandmother Maacah from the position of queen mother because she made a statue of the repulsive goddess Asherah. Asa cut the statue down and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14Although the illegal worship sites were not torn down, Asa remained committed 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 prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah did all the disgusting practices done by the nations that the Lord had forced out of the Israelites’ way.
• 1 Kings 22:46He rid the land of the male temple prostitutes who were left there from the time of his father Asa.
• Romans 1:26For this reason God allowed their shameful passions to control them. Their women have exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
• Jude 1:7What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire. The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God’s people and the angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual activities.
• 1 Kings 15:3He followed the sinful example his father had set and wasn’t committed to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.
• 1 Kings 11:7Then Solomon built an illegal worship site on the hill east of Jerusalem for Chemosh (the disgusting idol of Moab) and for Molech (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites).
• 1 Kings 14:23They built worship sites for themselves and ⌞put up⌟ large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree.
• 2 Chronicles 14:2Asa did what the Lord his God considered good and right.
• Ezekiel 20:18I said to their children in the desert, “Don’t live by the laws of your ancestors. Don’t obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.
• Zechariah 1:2“The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.
• 1 Peter 1:18Realize that you weren’t set free from the worthless life handed down to you from your ancestors by a payment of silver or gold which can be destroyed.

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