²⁶ They brought out the pillar^[a] that was in the temple of Baal and burned it.^(A)

²³ For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles^[a] on every high hill and under every green tree;^(A)

¹⁸ and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed.^(A)

² He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, though not like his father and mother, for he removed the pillar of Baal that his father had made.^(A)

²¹ The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.^(A)