^13 [a](A)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image ^[b]for 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 Yahweh to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of Yahweh they brought out to the court of the house of Yahweh. Then the Levites received it to bring out to ^(A)the Kidron ^[a]valley, to an outer area.