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1 Kings 15

1 Kings 15:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And also Maachah
Ma`akah (Hebrew #4601)
from 4600; depression; Maakah (or Maakath), the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and of four Israelitesses and one Syrian woman
KJV usage: Maachah, Maachathites. See also 1038.
Pronounce: mah-ak-aw'
Origin: or Mamakath (Josh. 13:13) {mah-ak-awth'}
his mother
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
, even her he removed
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
from being queen
gbiyrah (Hebrew #1377)
a mistress
KJV usage: queen.
Pronounce: gheb-ee-raw'
Origin: feminine of 1376
, because she had made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
an idol
miphletseth (Hebrew #4656)
a terror, i.e. an idol
KJV usage: idol.
Pronounce: mif-leh'-tseth
Origin: from 6426
in a grove
'asherah (Hebrew #842)
from 833; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
KJV usage: grove. Compare 6253.
Pronounce: ash-ay-raw'
Origin: or masheyrah {ash-ay-raw'}
; and Asa
'Aca' (Hebrew #609)
Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite
KJV usage: Asa.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
a βdestroyed
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
her idol
miphletseth (Hebrew #4656)
a terror, i.e. an idol
KJV usage: idol.
Pronounce: mif-leh'-tseth
Origin: from 6426
, and burnt
saraph (Hebrew #8313)
to be (causatively, set) on fire
KJV usage: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-raf'
Origin: a primitive root
b it by the brook
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
Kidron
Qidrown (Hebrew #6939)
dusky place; Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem
KJV usage: Kidron.
Pronounce: kid-rone'
Origin: from 6937
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2 Chron. 15:16• 16And also Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burned it in the valley Kidron. (2 Chron. 15:16)
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β
cut of.
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Ex. 32:20• 20And he took the calf that they had made, and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it. (Ex. 32:20)

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Asa,
Brook,
Grove,
Idolatry,
Kidron; Kedron,
Maacah; Maachah,
Mother,
Queen

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Maachah.
1 Kings 15:2,10• 2He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, a daughter of Abishalom.
 10and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maachah, daughter of Abishalom. (1 Kings 15:2,10)
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2 Chron. 15:15,16‑19• 15And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they took the oath with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them. And Jehovah gave them rest round about.
 16And also Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burned it in the valley Kidron.
 17But the high places were not removed from Israel; only, Asa's heart was perfect all his days.
 18And he brought into the house of God the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
 19And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa. (2 Chron. 15:15,16‑19)
his mother.
Deut. 13:6‑11• 6If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is to thee as thy soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (whom thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
 7of the gods of the peoples which are round about you, near unto thee, or far from thee, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth),
 8thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye spare him, neither shalt thou pity him, neither shalt thou screen him,
 9but thou shalt in any case kill him: thy hand shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people;
 10and thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; for he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
 11and all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wicked thing as this in thy midst. (Deut. 13:6‑11)
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Deut. 33:9• 9Who said to his father and to his mother, I see him not, And he acknowledged not his brethren, And knew not his own children; For they have observed thy word, And kept thy covenant. (Deut. 33:9)
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Zech. 13:3• 3And it shall come to pass, if any shall yet prophesy, that his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. (Zech. 13:3)
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Matt. 10:37• 37He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me. (Matt. 10:37)
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Matt. 12:46‑50• 46But while he was yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.
 47Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren are standing without, seeking to speak to thee.
 48But he answering said to him that spoke to him, Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?
 49And, stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren;
 50for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Matt. 12:46‑50)
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2 Cor. 5:16• 16So that *we* henceforth know no one according to flesh; but if even we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. (2 Cor. 5:16)
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Gal. 2:5‑6,14• 5to whom we yielded in subjection not even for an hour, that the truth of the glad tidings might remain with you.
 6But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat--whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me: God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;
 14But when I saw that they do not walk straightforwardly, according to the truth of the glad tidings, I said to Peter before all, If *thou*, being a Jew, livest as the nations and not as the Jews, how dost thou compel the nations to Judaize? (Gal. 2:5‑6,14)
destroyed.
Heb. cut off.
Lev. 26:30• 30And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. (Lev. 26:30)
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Deut. 7:5• 5But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with fire. (Deut. 7:5)
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2 Kings 18:4• 4He removed the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and broke in pieces the serpent of brass that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel burned incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2 Kings 18:4)
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2 Kings 23:12‑15• 12And the king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, and he shattered them, removing them from thence, and cast the powder of them into the torrent of Kidron.
 13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
 14And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
 15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and burned the high place, stamped it small to powder, and burned the Asherah. (2 Kings 23:12‑15)
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2 Chron. 34:4• 4And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-pillars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs and the graven images and the molten images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and strewed it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed to them; (2 Chron. 34:4)
and burnt.
Ex. 32:20• 20And he took the calf that they had made, and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it. (Ex. 32:20)
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Deut. 9:21• 21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, and ground it very small, until it became fine dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that flowed down from the mountain. (Deut. 9:21)
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Josh. 6:24• 24And they burned the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of copper and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Jehovah. (Josh. 6:24)
the brook.
2 Sam. 15:23• 23And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over; the king also himself passed over the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed over, towards the way of the wilderness. (2 Sam. 15:23)
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2 Kings 23:6• 6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, outside Jerusalem, to the torrent of Kidron, and burned it at the torrent of Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder upon the graves of the children of the people. (2 Kings 23:6)
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John 18:1• 1Jesus, having said these things, went out with his disciples beyond the torrent Cedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples. (John 18:1)
Cedron.
• Maachah occupied the position of queen, perhaps of regent mother, at Asa’s court. He stripped her of her dignity and prestige, she who in face of her grandson’s zeal to abolish idolatry had ventured and had wished to reestablish it in its most corrupt forms. (“Nadab and Baasha, Kings of Israel and Abijam and Asa, Kings of Judah: 1 Kings 15” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And also Maachah his mother he removed from being queenb, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and burned it in the valley of Kidron.

JND Translation Notes

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b
Strictly, "mistress." It was a position similar to that of an empress-mother in China. see ch 2.19; for Asherah, see Ex. 34.13; Judg. 2.13.