1 Kings 15:9New Living TranslationAsa began to rule over Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel. See the chapter |
When Asa heard this message from Azariah the prophet, he took courage and removed all the detestable idols from the land of Judah and Benjamin and in the towns he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. And he repaired the altar of the Lord, which stood in front of the entry room of the Lord’s Temple.