12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. …
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. …
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-24)We have here a short account of the reign of Asa; we shall find a more copious history of it 2 Chron. 14:1-16:14 Here is, I. The length of it: He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem , 1 Kgs. 15:10. In the account we have of the kings of Judah we find the number of the good kings and the bad ones nearly equal; but then we may observe, to our comfort, that the reign of the good kings was generally…
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