II Chronicles 33:3

Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—

When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.

those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.