It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;
"Regarding the Asherah, she was a mother-goddess, the consort of Baal in the O.T.  The word also stands for an image of this goddess.  Scholars reject the idea that `an Asherah' was merely a post, and would translate `Asherah-image,' instead of `Asherah.'"[15]