2 Chronicles 15:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Maachah. See note on 2 Chronicles 13:2.

mother. the queen-mother. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus) for grandmother (1 Kings 15:2).

idol in. grove. a monstrous 'Asherah for. grove. Compare 1 Kings 15:13. See App-42.

stamped it. beat it small.

2 Chronicles 15:16

16 And also concerning Maachah the motherc of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.