1 Kings 15:12
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New International Version (©2011)
He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and destroyed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

NET Bible (©2006)
He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He forced the male temple prostitutes out of the land and got rid of the idols his father had made.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he took away the male prostitutes out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

American King James Version
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

American Standard Version
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

Darby Bible Translation
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

English Revised Version
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

World English Bible
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Young's Literal Translation
and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 power are happy when thus they have hearts to use it well. We must not only cease to do evil, but learn to do well; not only cast away the idols of our iniquity, but dedicate ourselves and our all to God's honour and glory. Asa was cordially devoted to the service of God, his sins not arising from presumption. But his league with Benhadad arose from unbelief. Even true believers find it hard, in times of urgent danger, to trust in the Lord with all their heart. Unbelief makes way for carnal policy, and thus for one sin after another. Unbelief has often led Christians to call in the help of the Lord's enemies in their contests with their brethren; and some who once shone brightly, have thus been covered with a dark cloud towards the end of their days.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - And he took away the Sodomites [see on 1 Kings 14:24, and Romans 1:23-27. It appears from 1 Kings 22:46 that this abomination was not wholly suppressed] out of the land, and removed all the idols [גִּלֻּלִים from גָּלַל volvit A term of contempt (see Deuteronomy 29:17, where it is coupled with "abominations; "Ezekiel 23:37); but whether the word is to be interpreted by גֵּלֶל a ball of dung, in which case these idols (Dei stereorei) would have a designation like Beelzebul ("the lord of dung"), or with גַּל a heap of stones (Genesis 31:46, 48), Dei lapidei, is uncertain. Keil would translate logs, Gesenius trunks, stocks, which from being rolled might well bear this name] that his fathers had made.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he took away the Sodomites out of the land,.... Which were in the times of Rehoboam, 1 Kings 14:24, and continued in his father's reign; those he took away, either by driving them out of the land, or by putting them to death according to the law of God, Leviticus 20:13 even as many of them as he had knowledge of, for some remained, see 1 Kings 22:46,

and removed all the idols that his fathers had made; or suffered to be made, as Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam, see 1 Kings 11:7.

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Asa's Good Reign in Judah
…11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13And 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. …

Deuteronomy 23:17 No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.
1 Kings 11:7 On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
1 Kings 14:23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
1 Kings 14:24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
1 Kings 21:26 He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the LORD drove out before Israel.)
1 Kings 22:46 He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa.
2 Kings 23:7 He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the LORD, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.
2 Chronicles 14:2 Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 14:3 He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles.