²³ While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people were crossing over. The king was also crossing over ^(A)the brook Kidron, and all the people were crossing over toward ^(B)the way of the wilderness.

³⁷ For on the day you leave and ^(A)cross the ^[a]brook Kidron, you will know for certain that you will assuredly die; ^(B)your blood will be ^[b]on your own head.”

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.

Reforms under Josiah

⁴ Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, ^(A)the priests of the second order, and the ^[a]doorkeepers ^(B)to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the utensils that had been made for Baal, for ^[b]Asherah, and for all the heavenly ^[c]lights; and ^(C)he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

⁶ He also brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ^(A)ground it to dust, and ^(B)threw its dust on the graves of the ^[a]common people.