¹³ Also he removed ^(A)Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of ^[a]Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and ^(B)burned it by the Brook Kidron.

^13 (A)Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, “Who are you?”

So they answered, “We are the brothers of Ahaziah; we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother.”

¹⁵ And ^(A)he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

¹⁶ Also he removed ^(A)Maachah, the ^[a]mother of Asa the king, from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of ^[b]Asherah; and Asa cut down her obscene image, then crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron.

^26 (A)So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.

² (This happened after ^(A)Jeconiah^[a] the king, the ^(B)queen mother, the ^[b]eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.)