²⁴ Do not bow down before their gods or worship^(A) them or follow their practices.^(B) You must demolish^(C) them and break their sacred stones^(D) to pieces. ²⁵ Worship the Lord your God,^(E) and his blessing^(F) will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness^(G) from among you,

¹³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.^{[a](A) 14} Do not worship any other god,^(B) for the Lord, whose name^(C) is Jealous, is a jealous God.^(D)

¹⁷ “Do not make any idols.^(A)

⁵² drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.^(A)

⁵ This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles^[a](A) and burn their idols in the fire.^(B)

³ Break down their altars, smash^(A) their sacred stones and burn^(B) their Asherah^(C) poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names^(D) from those places.

Worshiping Other Gods

²¹ Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole^(A) beside the altar you build to the Lord your God,^(B)

³ He did what was right^(A) in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David^(B) had done. ⁴ He removed^(C) the high places,^(D) smashed the sacred stones^(E) and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake^(F) Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.^[a])