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Wooden poles or carved images set up for the worship of Asherah — a Canaanite fertility goddess
lightbulbWooden poles set up for Asherah worship — Israel kept planting them and prophets kept chopping them down
Sacred poles or carved images used in the worship of Asherah, a Canaanite fertility goddess. God repeatedly commanded Israel to cut them down (Deuteronomy 7:5). Their persistent presence in Israel marked spiritual unfaithfulness to God.