2Ch 15:16 | HCSB | STEP | King Asa also removed Maacah , his grandmother , from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah . Asa chopped down her obscene image , then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley .

2 Chronicles 15:16

16 King Asa ^a also removed Maacah, his grandmother, ^{▼▼Lit mother; 1Kg 15:2; 2Ch 11:22
,} ^c from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of ^{▼▼Asherah(s): A Canaanite fertility goddess, who was the mother of the god Baal; also the wooden poles associated with the worship of her}Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley. ^e