“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods– do not let them be heard on your lips.
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TSK · Deuteronomy 12:3
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Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her loathsome pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.
their troubles multiply; they desire other gods. I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods, nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.
For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”
And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.