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.

14 They set to work and removed the ^ealtars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook ^fKidron.