⁵² then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and ^(A)destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;

⁵ But thus you shall do to them: ^(A)you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their ^[a]Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

^3 (A)You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their ^[a]Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and ^(B)obliterate their name from that place.

^4 (A)He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the ^[a]Asherah. He also broke in pieces ^(B)the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called ^[b]Nehushtan.