^13 [a](A)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image ^[b]as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and ^(B)burned it at the brook Kidron.

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