²³ And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people crossed over. The king himself also crossed over the Brook Kidron, and all the people crossed over toward the way of the ^(A)wilderness.

³⁷ For it shall be, on the day you go out and cross ^(A)the Brook Kidron, know for certain you shall surely die; ^(B)your ^[a]blood shall be on your own head.”

¹³ Also he removed ^(A)Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of ^[a]Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and ^(B)burned it by the Brook Kidron.

⁴ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the ^(A)priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring ^(B)out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for ^[a]Asherah, and for all ^[b]the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

⁶ And he brought out the ^(A)wooden^[a] image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ^(B)ashes, and threw its ashes on ^(C)the graves of the common people.