12And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.


In Context

9 So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, reigned Asa king of Juda,

10 And he reigned one end forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.

11 And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David his father:

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

13 Moreover he also removed his mother Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:

14 But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:

1 Kings 15:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:12He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his fathers had made.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12And he banished the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.