² Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains,^(A) on the hills and under every spreading tree,^(B) where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. ³ Break down their altars, smash^(C) their sacred stones and burn^(D) their Asherah^(E) poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names^(F) from those places.

²⁶ They brought the sacred stone^(A) out of the temple of Baal and burned it. ²⁷ They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple^(B) of Baal, and people have used it for a latrine to this day.