41 Heb “and the rest of the male cultic prostitutes who were left in the days of Asa his father, he burned from the land.” Some understand the verb בִּעֵר (bi’er) to mean “sweep away” here rather than “burn.” See the note at . Despite Asa’s opposition to these male cultic prostitutes (see 1 Kgs 15:12) some of them had managed to remain in the land. Jehoshaphat finished what his father had started.

In other versions

And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.

He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa.

He eradicated from the land the rest of the male cult prostitutes who were left from the days of his father Asa.

He banished from the land the rest of the male and female shrine prostitutes, who still continued their practices from the days of his father, Asa.

The remainder of the male shrine prostitutes who were left over in the days of Asa his father he exterminated from the land.

And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

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