2Ch 15:16-16:14 | ESV | STEP | Even Maacah , his mother , King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah . Asa cut down her image , crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron .

2 Chronicles 15:16-19

16 ^aEven Maacah, ^bhis mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image ^cfor Asherah. Asa cut down her image, ^dcrushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. 17 ^eBut the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days. 18 And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels. 19 And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

2 Chronicles 16

Asa’s Last Years

1 ^fIn the ^gthirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, ^hthat he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 2 Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and the king’s house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, 3 “There is a covenant ^{▼▼Or treaty; twice in this verse} between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.” 4 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the ^jstore cities of Naphtali. 5 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and let his work cease. 6 Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.

7 At that time ^kHanani ^lthe seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, ^m“Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. 8 Were not ⁿthe Ethiopians and ^othe Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet ^pbecause you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand. 9 ^qFor the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those ^rwhose heart is blameless ^{▼▼Or whole} toward him. ^tYou have done foolishly in this, for from now on ^uyou will have wars.” 10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him ^vin the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

11 ^wThe acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians. 13 And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign. 14 They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier ^xthat had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, ^yand they made a very great fire in his honor.