4 He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces ^xthe bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).¹

2 You shall surely ^gdestroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, ^hon the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. 4 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way. 5 But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will ⁱchoose out of all your tribes to ^jput his name and make his habitation¹ there. There you shall go,