⁵² drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.^(A)

⁵ This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles^[a](A) and burn their idols in the fire.^(B)

² and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land,^(A) but you shall break down their altars.^(B)’ Yet you have disobeyed^(C) me. Why have you done this?