¹³ And even his mother Maacah, ^(A)he also removed her from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image ^[a]as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her abominable image and ^(B)burned it at the brook Kidron.

¹⁶ So the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought every unclean thing which they found in the temple of the Lord out to the courtyard of the house of the Lord. Then the Levites received it to carry out to ^(A)the Kidron ^[a]Valley.