¹³ Tear down their altars; smash their sacred stones, and cut down their asherahs.^[a]

¹⁹ And when you look up to the heavens and behold the sun or the moon or the stars, the whole heavenly host, do not be led astray into bowing down to them and serving them.^(A) These the Lord, your God, has apportioned to all the other nations under the heavens;

^2 (A)If there is found in your midst, in any one of the communities which the Lord, your God, gives you, a man or a woman who does evil in the sight of the Lord, your God, and transgresses his covenant,^{(B) 3} by going to serve other gods, by bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, contrary to my command;^(C)

^28 (A)The king took counsel, made two calves of gold, and said to the people: “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

³³ and also made an asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than any of the kings of Israel before him.