8 Abijah died and was buried in David's City, and his son Asa succeeded him as king.
9 In the twentieth year of the reign of King Jeroboam of Israel, Asa became king of Judah,
10 and he ruled for 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.
11 Asa did what pleased the Lord, as his ancestor David had done.
12 He expelled from the country all the male and female prostitutes serving at the pagan places of worship, and he removed all the idols his predecessors had made.
13 He removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother, because she had made an obscene idol of the fertility goddess Asherah. Asa cut down the idol and burnt it in the valley of the Kidron.
14 Even though Asa did not destroy all the pagan places of worship, he remained faithful to the Lord all his life.