³ He took away the foreign altars ^(A)and the high places and broke down ^(B)the pillars and cut down the ^(C)Asherim

⁵ But thus shall you deal with them: ^(A)you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their ^(B)pillars and chop down their ^(C)Asherim and ^(D)burn their carved images with fire.

¹⁴ And he broke in pieces the ^(A)pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.

¹³ You shall ^(A)tear down their altars and ^(B)break their pillars and cut down their ^(C)Asherim

¹² He put away the ^(A)male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed ^(B)all the idols that his fathers had made. ^13 (C)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and ^(D)burned it at the brook Kidron. ^14 (E)But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, ^(F)the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.

^17 (A)But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.

⁴ And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the ^(A)incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the ^(B)Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and ^(C)scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

⁶ And he brought out ^(A)the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, ^(B)and burned it at the brook Kidron ^(C)and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves ^(D)of the common people.

^4 (A)He removed the high places and broke the ^(B)pillars and cut down ^(C)the Asherah. And he broke in pieces ^(D)the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).^[a]