¹⁵ the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and ^(A)root up Israel out of ^(B)this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them ^(C)beyond the Euphrates,^[a] because they have made their ^(D)Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

²³ For they also built for themselves ^(A)high places ^(B)and pillars and ^(C)Asherim on every high hill and ^(D)under every green tree,

^13 (A)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and ^(B)burned it at the brook Kidron.

³³ And Ahab made an ^(A)Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger ^(B)than all the kings of Israel who were before him.