16aHe also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as ban Asherah, and cAsa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.
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Exodus 34:13
Exodus 34
13
"aBut rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their bAsherim