But this is what you shall do to them: (A)you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their [a]Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the fire.

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  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast metal images: (A)two calves. And they (B)made an [a]Asherah, and (C)worshiped all the heavenly [b]lights, and (D)served Baal.

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  1. 2 Kings 17:16 I.e., a wooden symbol of a female deity
  2. 2 Kings 17:16 Lit host

For (A)he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and (B)he erected altars for Baal and made an [a]Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he (C)worshiped all the heavenly [b]lights and served them.

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  1. 2 Kings 21:3 I.e., a wooden symbol of a female deity
  2. 2 Kings 21:3 Lit host

For (A)he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had torn down; (B)he also set up altars for the Baals and made [a]Asherim, and he worshiped all the heavenly [b]lights and served them.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 33:3 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:3 Lit host

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