'Columns' in the Bible
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
and brought forth the columns out of the house of Baal, and burned them;
And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
He removed the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and broke in pieces the serpent of brass that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel burned incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.
and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;
And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into their cities.
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.