1 Kings 15:13-15

The Voice

¹³ He also took away his mother’s position as queen mother because she, Maacah, had made a corrupt and vile image honoring the goddess Asherah. Asa stripped down the goddess’s image and set fire to it in the trash heap beside the Kidron stream. ¹⁴ The high places were left alone. Asa did not touch them, but his heart belonged wholly to the Eternal One for his entire life. ¹⁵ He transported silver and gold and objects into the Eternal’s temple, replacing those that Shishak had taken. He dedicated old things of his father’s, as well as his own new things.