And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
But also he puttide doun Maacha, þe modir of Asa þe kyng, fro þe streit empire, for sche hadde made in a wode þe symylacre, eþer licnesse, of a mannus yerde; and he al to-brak al þat symylacre, and pownede it in to gobetis, and brente it in þe stronde of Cedron.