for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,

and he took away the altars of the strange [gods] and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;