2 Chronicles 15:16-19 King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from the position of queen mother. She made a statue of the repulsive goddess Asherah. Asa immediately cut the statue down, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from the position of queen mother. She made a statue of the repulsive goddess Asherah. Asa immediately cut the statue down, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley. ¹⁷ Although the illegal worship sites in Israel were not taken down, Asa remained committed to the LORD his entire life. ¹⁸ He brought into God's Temple the silver, the gold, and the utensils he and his father had set apart as holy. ¹⁹ There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.