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1 Kings 15:13

King James Version (KJV)

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1 Kings 15:13

Verse 13 of 34

Scripture focus

And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron.

1 Kings 15:13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Kings 15:13

Theological / Devotional

Idol. Heb. miphleseth. This word occurs only here and in the parallel passage in 2 Chron. 15:16. It implies something horrible and shocking. Probably an obscene image of some particularly monstrous kind is meant. The act of Maachah in making such an idol was regarded as so flagrant that she was removed from her high station in her old age, and the idol was publicly burned.

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