King James Version
1 Kings 15:11 in the King James Version says “And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.”
1 Kings 15:11 · KJV
And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. mother's: that is, grandmother's
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And 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. destroyed: Heb. cut off
KJV Study — Public Domain
“in the eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“his father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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