³⁷ For on the day you go out and cross ^(A)the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. ^(B)Your blood shall be on your own head.”

^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.

⁴ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests ^(A)of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for ^(B)Baal, for ^(C)Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. ^(D)He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

⁶ And he brought out ^(A)the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, ^(B)and burned it at the brook Kidron ^(C)and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves ^(D)of the common people.

¹² And the altars ^(A)on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars ^(B)that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces^[a] and cast the dust of them ^(C)into the brook Kidron.