The writer next provides an evaluation of Asa from the divine point of view. The evaluation is all to the good. First, the writer tells us that Asa did what was right,
and that it is God himself who has judged Asa in this manner. He also gives a standard of comparison. That standard is David, and he meets the standard, unlike both Rehoboam and Abijam.
There is nothing in the immediate context to suggest a problem; still, we must remember that even David wasn’t perfect in this behaviour before the Lord. Relative, though, to his father and grandfather, Asa was exemplary. The writer proceeds to give the evidence of Asa’s whole-hearted commitment to the Lord. First, he put away the male cult prostitutes. Because of the language that the writer chooses to speak of Asa’s devotion to the Lord, it is not unlikely that included in the idea of putting away was their execution.
11 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done.