15:16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother 3 from her position as queen mother 4 because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
1 sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).
2 tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).
3 tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.
4 tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.