1 Kings 15:9-13
1 Kings 15:9
So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa began to reign as king of Judah.
1 Kings 15:10
He reigned for forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:11
Now Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like his father David.
1 Kings 15:12
He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
1 Kings 15:13
And even his mother Maacah, he also removed her from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her abominable image and burned it at the brook Kidron.