8. And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa, his son, reigned in his place.
9. Then, in the twentieth year of Jeroboam, the king of Israel, Asa reigned as king of Judah.
10. And he reigned for forty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
11. And Asa did what was right before the sight of the Lord, just as his father David did.
12. And he took away the effeminate from the land. And he purged all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.