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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:13

And also Maachah his mother, oven her he removed from being queen [Rather, queen-mother . Gebiruh, as already pointed out on 1 Kings 2:19 , answers to the Sultana Valide . The Vulgate reads, Ne esset princeps in sacris Priapi . Wordsworth reminds us of the position which the queen-mother Atossa holds in the Persae . A queen consort is hardly possible in a polygamous household; see Kitto, 4:177] because [Heb. which, as in verse 5] she had made all idol [ מִפְלֶצֶת from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:14

But the high places [evidently such as are referred to in 1 Kings 3:1-28 , i.e; un authorized shrines of Jehovah; cf. 2 Kings 14:4 ] were not taken away [lit; departed not . Yet we read in 2 Chronicles 45:3, that Asa "took away the high places (cf. verse 5). But it is clear, even from 2 Chronicles 15:17 , that all of them were not re moved, and the discrepancy arises from the well-known Eastern idiom of putting the whole for the part, of which we have in stances in Genesis... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:14

Religious sincerity. A beautiful flower often springs from the midst of corruption. The more we realize the moral condition of Asa's surroundings the more we wonder at the grace which made him what he was. His father was Abijam (or Abijah), the second king of Judah, of whom it is said, "He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him." His education appears to have been entrusted to Maachah, his grandmother, a daughter of Absalom the rebel, and herself a gross... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:15

And he brought in the things which his gather had dedicated [Heb. the holy things of his father . These were probably the spoils Abijah had taken in his war with Jeroboam ( 2 Chronicles 13:18 )], and the things which himself had dedicated [These were probably the spoils of the Ethiopians ( 2 Chronicles 14:15 ; cf. 2 Chronicles 15:11 )], into [the Hebrew omits this word. Keil says that "house" is an accusative governed by "brought"], the house of the Lord , silver and gold, and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:10

Mother’s name - Rather, “grandmother’s.” The Jews cal any male ancestor, however remote, a father, and any female ancestor a mother (compare 1 Kings 15:2; Genesis 3:20). This Maachah was the favorite wife of Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 11:21, and the mother of Abijam. The way in which she is here mentioned strongly favors the notion that the position of queen-mother was a definite one at the court, and could only be held by one person at a time. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:13

Asa degraded Maachah from the rank and state of queen-mother.The word translated “idol” both here and in the parallel passage (marginal reference), does not occur elsewhere in Scripture. It is derived from a root signifying “fear” or “trembling,” and may perhaps best be understood as “a fright, a horror.” Such a name would seem best to apply to a grotesque and hideous image like the Phthah of the Egyptians. She made it to serve in lieu of the ordinary “grove” - asherah, or idolatrous emblem of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:14

2 Chronicles 14:3 would seem at first sight to imply that he entirely put down the worship. But idolatry, if at one time put down, crept back afterward; or while Asa endeavored to sweep it wholly away, his subjects would not be controlled, but found a means of maintaining it in some places - not perhaps in the cities (see 2 Chronicles 14:5), but in remote country districts, where the royal authority was weaker, and secrecy more practicable. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:15

Abijam’s dedications were made after his victory over Jeroboam, and probably consisted of a portion of the spoils which were the fruit of the battle 2 Chronicles 13:16-19.Asa’s dedications may have been made from the spoils of Zerah the Ethiopian, who attacked him in his eleventh year (2 Chronicles 14:9, etc.). They were not deposited in the temple until his fifteenth year 2 Chronicles 15:10, 2 Chronicles 15:18. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 15:10-11

1 Kings 15:10-11. His mother’s name That is, his grandmother’s, as appears from 1 Kings 15:2. She is called his mother in the same sense in which David is called Abijam’s father, 1 Kings 15:3; that is, his progenitor. And his grandmother’s name may be here mentioned, rather than his mother’s, because his mother was either an obscure person, or was dead, or unwilling to take care of the education of her son, and so he was educated by the grandmother, who, though she poisoned his father... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 15:12

1 Kings 15:12. He took away the sodomites All whom he could find out; but some escaped his observation, as appears from 1 Kings 22:46. And removed all the idols his father had made If his father had made them, he had the more need to remove them, that he might cut off the entail of the curse. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:13

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:14

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:14

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Kings 15:15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 15:10-11

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Kings 15:12

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