¹⁴ They set to work and removed ^(A)the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away ^(B)and threw into the brook Kidron.

²⁴ And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and ^(A)cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself ^(B)altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

¹⁶ The priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it and carried it out to ^(A)the brook Kidron.

^16 (A)Even Maacah, ^(B)his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image ^(C)for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, ^(D)crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

²³ And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed ^(A)the brook ^(B)Kidron, and all the people passed on toward ^(C)the wilderness.

Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

18 When Jesus had spoken these words, ^(A)he went out with his disciples across ^(B)the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.

⁷ he broke down the altars and beat the ^(A)Asherim and the images ^(B)into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

⁴ And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the ^(A)incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the ^(B)Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and ^(C)scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.