1 Kings 15:12
“And hee tooke away the Sodomites out of the land, and remooued all the idoles that his fathers had made.”
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1 Kings 15:12 Context
10And forty and one yeeres reigned hee in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 11And Asa did that which was right in the eies of the Lord, as did Dauid his father. 12And hee tooke away the Sodomites out of the land, and remooued all the idoles that his fathers had made. 13And also Maachah his mother, euen her hee remoued from being Queene, because she had made an idole in a groue, and Asa destroyed her idole, and burnt it by the brooke Kidron. 14But the high places were not remooued: neuerthelesse, Asa his heart was perfect with the Lord all his dayes.
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Other Translations for 1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- King James Version
He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.
- Darby Bible
And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- Webster's Bible
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- World English Bible
and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;
- Youngs Literal Bible
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Kings 15:12
15:12 Sodomites - All whom he could find out; but some escaped hisobservation, as appears from chap.#22:46|.Idols, &c. - And if his father had made them, he had the more need toremove them, that he might cut off the entail of the curse.