“And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.”
Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places — the comprehensive destruction targets all cultic apparatus: altars, standing stones, wooden poles (Asherah), and carved images. The obliteration of names suggests eradicating the very memory of false gods.
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