1 Kings 15:12

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46 : 46 And the remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
  • 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Jehovah his God: 3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, 4 and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
  • Ezek 20:18-19 : 18 And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;
  • Zech 1:2-6 : 2 Jehovah was sore displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    85%

    46And the remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.

  • 1 Kgs 15:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

    13And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

    14But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

    15And he brought into the house of Jehovah the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Jehovah his God:

    3for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

  • 2 Chr 15:16-18
    3 verses
    80%

    16And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

    17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

    18And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    80%

    11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as did David his father.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    78%

    8And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Jehovah, that was before the porch of Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    76%

    15And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    74%

    24and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

    7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    71%

    6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22
    71%

    22Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    70%

    32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    70%

    5Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
    5 verses
    69%

    3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

    4And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves [of them] that had sacrificed unto them.

    5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

    6And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

    7And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    69%

    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
    69%

    5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-15
    4 verses
    69%

    12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

    13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

    14And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • Ezek 16:50
    68%

    50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good] .

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    68%

    3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:24
    68%

    24And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Chr 17:2
    68%

    2And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    68%

    2And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    68%

    33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they departed not from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    68%

    43And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    68%

    19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Jehovah] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    68%

    2And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    68%

    9And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 14:12
    67%

    12So Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    67%

    2And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  • 2 Chr 21:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.

    12And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

  • 2 Chr 16:6
    67%

    6Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    67%

    26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.)

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    67%

    4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    67%

    11Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    67%

    8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • 1 Kgs 15:18
    67%

    18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,