The interpretation timeline

1Kgs 15:9

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Kgs 15:9 · Douay-Rheims
“So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, reigned Asa king of Juda,”
Patristic before A.D. 750
373
A.D.
Ephrem the Syrian Patristic
c. A.D. 306–373
“In the meantime, Asa devoted himself to the reconstruction of the ruins of religion. He destroyed the temples of the idols, smashed the statues, set the sacred woods on fire and removed the ignominy of the effeminate priests. He also drove away Maacah, the mother of his father, Abijam. [She] was the high priestess of that abomination, and he chased her off from that place of honor that she was holding and broke her idols and burned them. Therefore, after removing the worship of the idols in this manner, he restored the holy rites of true religion and constantly protected all the sacred institutions for the forty-one years in which he ruled over the state.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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