Holy Scripture
1 Kings 15:12
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
12And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
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10And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Ana, daughter of Absalom.
11And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as David his father.
— 1 Kings 15:12 —
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.
14But he removed not the high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.