² Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods^(A)—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. ³ Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every^[a] place. ⁴ Don’t worship the Lord your God this way. ⁵ Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

⁴ He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.^(A) He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made,^(B) for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.^[a]

⁵ Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel;^(C) not one of the kings of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.^(D)