Then (A)he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem. (B)In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding spaces, he also tore down the altars and (C)crushed the [a]Asherim and the carved images into powder, and chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:7 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

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