Is Elijah Picking and Chosing His Evidence?

There are like 40 references to Hashera and 33 of them are clear references, not to the goddess. They had what were sometimes called a share of poles. But they most commonly seem to have been upright wooden poles that were somehow used in pagan worship. Until the 20th century, it was common to hold that these poles were just, that's what Hashera was.