24 you shall ^dnot bow down to their gods nor serve them, ^enor do as they do, but ^fyou shall utterly overthrow them and break their ^gpillars in pieces.

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

14 And he broke in pieces the ^apillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.

Hezekiah Organizes the Priests

1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and ⁿbroke in pieces the ^opillars and cut down ^pthe Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.