²⁴ you shall ^(A)not bow down to their gods nor serve them, ^(B)nor do as they do, but ^(C)you shall utterly overthrow them and break their ^(D)pillars in pieces. ²⁵ You ^(E)shall serve the Lord your God, and ^(F)he^[a] will bless your bread and your water, and ^(G)I will take sickness away from among you.

¹³ You shall ^(A)tear down their altars and ^(B)break their pillars and cut down their ^(C)Asherim ¹⁴ (for ^(D)you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

^17 (A)“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

⁵² then ^(A)you shall drive out ^(B)all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their ^(C)figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.

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.

³ You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces ^(A)their pillars and burn their ^(B)Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and ^(C)destroy their name out of that place.

Forbidden Forms of Worship

²¹ “You shall not plant any tree as ^(A)an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.

^3 (A)And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. ^4 (B)He removed the high places and broke the ^(C)pillars and cut down ^(D)the Asherah. And he broke in pieces ^(E)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]