Holy Scripture
1 Kings 15:11
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as David his father.
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9In the four and twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa begins to reign over Judah.
10And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Ana, daughter of Absalom.
— 1 Kings 15:11 —
12And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
13And he removed Ana his mother from being queen, forasmuch as she gathered a meeting in her grove: and Asa cut down her retreats, and burned them with fire in the brook of Kidron.