One of Judah’s good kings who enacted sweeping religious reforms, removing idols and foreign altars throughout the land. Asa deposed even his own grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an idol. When attacked by a vast Ethiopian army, Asa trusted God and won a miraculous victory. However, later in life he relied on a foreign alliance rather than God and died with diseased feet, a cautionary reminder that faithfulness must persist to the end.
And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.1 Kings 15:11 · Berean Standard Bible
In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done. He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she…
Abijam does evil. Asa does right. The pattern that will define both kingdoms for centuries establishes itself early.
Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa. Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.
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Asa is generation 37 of the 64 Scripture traces from Adam to Jesus, following Solomon → Rehoboam → Abijah, and followed by Jehoshaphat → Joram → Ahaziah. See the whole line.
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