16 ^uEven Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa ^vcut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

16 The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook ⁱKidron.