He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

So the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baals and Asherahs.

For they also built for themselves high places, [sacred] pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.

And Ahab made a wooden image. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills.

Then he took the calf which they had made, burned [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder; and he scattered [it] on the water and made the children of Israel drink [it.]

"You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it [is] an abomination to the LORD your God.

"Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it [and] ground [it] very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

Then they broke down the [sacred] pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and made it a refuse dump to this day.

They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which [were] above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and scattered [it] on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.