⁵ But this is how you must deal with them:^(A) Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their asherahs,^[a] and destroy their idols by fire.

¹³ Tear down their altars; smash their sacred stones, and cut down their asherahs.^[a]

¹⁵ The Lord will strike Israel like a reed tossed about in the water and will pluck out Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond the River,^[a] because they made asherahs for themselves, provoking the Lord.

⁶ From the house of the Lord he also removed the Asherah to the Wadi Kidron, outside Jerusalem; he burned it and beat it to dust, in the Wadi Kidron, and scattered its dust over the graveyard of the people of the land.^[a](A)

¹⁵ Likewise the altar which was at Bethel, the high place built by Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin—this same altar and high place he tore down and burned, grinding the high place to powder and burning the asherah.^(A)

³ He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had torn down. He set up altars to the Baals, and also made asherahs. He bowed down to the whole host of heaven and served them.