A moment in scripture
1 Kings 15:11
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And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Kings 15:9
And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:10
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 15:13
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.