13 And he [a]put down (A)Maachah his mother also from her estate, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa destroyed her idols, and burnt them by the brook Kidron.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 15:13 Neither kindred nor authority ought to be regarded, when they blaspheme God, and become idolaters, but must be punished.

13 He even deposed his grandmother Maakah(A) from her position as queen mother,(B) because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down(C) and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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