² You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you are going to dispossess serve their gods, on the ^(A)high mountains, on the hills, and under every leafy tree. ³ And ^(B)you shall tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones to pieces, and burn their ^[a]Asherim in the fire, and cut to pieces the carved images of their gods; and you shall ^(C)eliminate their name from that place. ⁴ You shall not act this way toward the Lord your God. ^5 (D)But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and you shall come there.

^4 (A)He removed the high places and smashed the memorial stones to pieces, and cut down the ^[a]Asherah. He also crushed to pieces ^(B)the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel had been burning incense to it; and it was called ^[b]Nehushtan. ^5 (C)He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel; and ^(D)after him there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who came before him.