15 All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They had sought him with all sincerity, and he was found by them.(A) So the Lord gave them rest on every side.(B)

16 King Asa(C) also removed Maacah, his grandmother,[a](D) from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.(E) 17 The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholeheartedly devoted his entire life.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:16 Lit mother; 1Kg 15:2; 2Ch 11:22
  2. 15:17 Lit wholehearted all his days

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