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Asa removes the male cult prostitutes and idols; focus on his removal of Maacah from queen-mother rank and the burning of her Asherah image in Kidron, without eroticized depiction.
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1 Kings 15:12-13

Asa removes the Asherah image

Kings of Judah and Israel · 1 Kings 15

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12He removed the male cult prostitutes from the land, and he took away all the idols that his fathers had made.

13He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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