1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spoke unto all the house of Israel, saying, If all of you do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
4Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:29But if from thence you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 10:20You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him shall you cleave, and swear by his name.
Deuteronomy 30:2And shall return unto the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all yours heart, and with all your soul;
Joshua 24:23Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
Judges 2:13And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Judges 10:16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for 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 →