1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel speaks to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are turning back to YHWH with all your heart—turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart for YHWH, and serve Him only, and He delivers you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the sons of Israel turn aside the Ba‘alim and Ashtaroth, and serve YHWH alone;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:29And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 10:20You fear your God YHWH, you serve Him, and you cleave to Him, and you swear by His Name.
Deuteronomy 30:2and have turned back to your God YHWH and listened to His voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, with all your heart and with all your soul—
Joshua 24:23“And now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and incline your heart to YHWH, God of Israel.”
Judges 2:13indeed, they forsake YHWH, and do service to Ba‘al and to Ashtaroth.
Judges 10:16And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve YHWH, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 7:2-3
The Ark at Kirjath-jearim. ( b. c. 1099.) 1 And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord , and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord . 2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord . Here we must attend the ark to Kirjath-jearim, and then leave it there, to hear not a word more of it except once ( ch.… Read the whole commentary →