When Asa heard these words of Oded the prophet Of Azariah, the son of Oded, who was also called by his father's name; he took courage For it required great courage to put away all the idols, to which so great a number of his people were still attached, and among others Maachah, the queen, his mother, whom, for this reason, he deposed, 1 Kings 15:13. And out of the cities which he had taken Or, which had been taken, namely, by Abijah his father. And renewed the altar of the Lord Which had been either decayed by time and long use of it, or broken by his idolatrous mother's means. Or the expression may signify, He consecrated, or dedicated, the altar, &c., which, possibly, had been polluted by idolaters, and now needed some purification.
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2 Chronicles 15:8
8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.