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10 He reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother[a] was Maacah, the granddaughter of Absalom.

11 Asa did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight, as his ancestor David had done. 12 He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols[b] his ancestors had made.

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Footnotes

  1. 15:10 Or The queen mother; Hebrew reads His mother (also in 15:13); compare 15:2.
  2. 15:12 The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.

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