9. In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
10. He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11. Asa did that which was right in the Lord’s eyes, as David his father did.
12. He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.