²⁶ And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned.

²³ For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

²¹ And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.

² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

¹⁸ And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.