Othniel

^7 (A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and ^(B)the Asheroth.

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

¹⁹ And his prayer, and how ^(A)God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites ^(B)on which he built high places and set up the ^(C)Asherim and the images, before ^(D)he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.^[a]

³ For he rebuilt the high places ^(A)that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made ^(B)Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

¹⁸ And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served ^(A)the Asherim and the idols. And ^(B)wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

^16 (A)Even Maacah, ^(B)his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image ^(C)for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, ^(D)crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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

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.

¹⁹ Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount ^(A)Carmel, and the ^(B)450 prophets of Baal and ^(C)the 400 prophets of Asherah, ^(D)who eat at Jezebel's table.”