8. And Abiam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9. So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, reigned Asa king of Juda,
10. And he reigned one end forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.
11. And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as did David his father:
12. And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and he removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.
13. Moreover he also removed his mother Maacha, from being the princess in the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grove which she had consecrated to him: and he destroyed her den, and broke in pieces the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrent Cedron:
14. But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days: