1 Kings 15:13
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה
ʼÂbêl Bêyth-Măʻakâh
Abel of Beth-maakah, a place in Palestine
אֵם
ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
נָסַע
nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אֱלִיל
ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
אֲשֵׁרָה
ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
אָסָא
ʼÂçâʼ
Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite
אֱלִיל
ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
נַחַל
nachal
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
קִדְרוֹן
Qidrôwn
Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem
Key Terms in This Verse
אֱלִיל ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
Study H457 →אֱלִיל ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
Study H457 →אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Study H842 →אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה ʼÂbêl Bêyth-Măʻakâh
Abel of Beth-maakah, a place in Palestine
Study H62 →נַחַל nachal
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
Study H5158 →נָסַע nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
Study H5265 →Cross References
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it...
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and ...
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon t...
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that d...
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews...
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, a...
And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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