³ For he rebuilt the high places ^(A)that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made ^(B)an Asherah, ^(C)as Ahab king of Israel had done, ^(D)and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

⁷ And the carved image of ^(A)Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, ^(B)and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.