1 Kings 15:12

and he took(R.V. put) away The same word is so rendered in 2 Chronicles 15:8, of these very reforms. Literally it means -caused to pass by."

idols that his fathers had made Not only those in Judah and Benjamin, but also those that were set up in the hill country of Ephraim, in the cities which Abijam had taken from Jeroboam.