King James Version
1 Kings 15:12 in the King James Version says “And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”
1 Kings 15:12 · KJV
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
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And he took away”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“the sodomites”
H6945a (quasi) sacred person, i.e., (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“that his fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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