1 Kings 15:8-9

15:8 Abijah passed away ¹  and was buried ²  in the city of David. His son Asa replaced him as king.

Asa’s Reign over Judah

15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.

1 Kings 15:14

15:14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ³ 

1 Kings 15:28

15:28 Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah and replaced him as king.

1 Kings 22:46

22:46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.” The Old Greek also has these words: “in the twenty-eighth year of Jeroboam.”

² tn Heb “and they buried him.”

³ tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete with the Lord all his days.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the rest of the male cultic prostitutes who were left in the days of Asa his father, he burned from the land.” Some understand the verb בִּעֵר (bi’er) to mean “sweep away” here rather than “burn.” See the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.

sn Despite Asa’s opposition to these male cultic prostitutes (see 1 Kgs 15:12) some of them had managed to remain in the land. Jehoshaphat finished what his father had started.