They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

You must make holy garments ¹  for your brother Aaron, for glory and for beauty. ² 

You are to make this ¹  into ²  a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, ³  the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.

They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

He removed the pagan altars ¹  and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. ² 

You must not erect a sacred pillar, ¹  a thing the Lord your God detests.

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines ¹  with human bones.

Every man’s holy things ¹  will be his; whatever any man gives the priest will be his.’”

Their children are always thinking about ¹  their ²  altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, ³  set up beside the green trees on the high hills

Blow the trumpet ¹  in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles. ¹ 

They demolished ¹  the sacred pillar of Baal and ²  the temple of Baal; it is used as ³  a latrine ⁴  to this very day.

Indeed, they ¹  will be ashamed of the sacred trees you ²  find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards ³  where you choose to worship.

I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, ¹  cut down their sacred Asherah poles, ²  and burn up their idols.

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, ¹  burn up their sacred Asherah poles, ²  and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.