“In the meantime, Asa devoted himself to the reconstruction of the ruins of religion. He destroyed the temples of the idols, smashed the statues, set the sacred woods on fire and removed the ignominy of the effeminate priests. He also drove away Maacah, the mother of his father, Abijam. [She] was the high priestess of…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 15:1
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10And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
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8And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
— 1 Kings 15:10 —
11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.