2Ch 15:16-18 | NASB2020 | STEP | He also removed Maacah , the mother of King Asa , from the position of queen mother , because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah , and Asa cut down her abominable image , crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron .

2 Chronicles 15:16-18

16 ^aHe also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image ^{▼▼Or for Asherah; i.e., a wooden symbol of a female deity}as ^can Asherah, and ^dAsa cut down her abominable image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. 17 But the high places were not removed from Israel; nevertheless Asa’s heart was blameless all his days. 18 He brought into the house of God the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver, gold, and utensils.