1 Kings 15:1
ContextAbijah’s Reign over Judah
15:1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah 1 became king over Judah.
1 Kings 15:9
ContextAsa’s Reign over Judah
15:9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.
1 Kings 15:28
Context15:28 Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah and replaced him as king.
1 Kings 22:46
Context22:46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. 2
1 tc The Old Greek also has the phrase “the son of Rehoboam.”
2 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.