8 And Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son became king in his place.
9 So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa began to reign as king of Judah.
10 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11 Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father.
12 He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.
13 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.