“He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.