²⁶ Then build a proper kind of^[a] altar to the Lord your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second^[b] bull as a burnt offering.^(A)”

²⁸ In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar,^(A) demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!

³⁰ The people of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar^(A) and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

¹³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.^[a](A)

¹³ because they forsook^(A) him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.^(B)