13 And he [a]put down (A)Maachah his mother also from her estate, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa destroyed her idols, and burnt them by the brook Kidron.

14 But they put not down the high places. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was [b]upright with the Lord all his days.

15 Also he brought in the holy vessels of his father, and the things that he had dedicated unto the house of the Lord, silver and gold, and vessels.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 15:13 Neither kindred nor authority ought to be regarded, when they blaspheme God, and become idolaters, but must be punished.
  2. 1 Kings 15:14 For in that that he suffered them to worship God in other places, than he had appointed, it came of ignorance, and not of malice.

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