1 Samuel 7:3

And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, 'If with all your heart ye are turning back unto Jehovah — turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto Jehovah, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye 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.

In Context

2And it cometh to pass, from the day of the dwelling of the ark in Kirjath-Jearim, that the days are multiplied — yea, they are twenty years — and wail do all the house of Israel after Jehovah.

4And the sons of Israel turn aside the Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serve Jehovah alone;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:29'And — ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 10:20'Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.

Deuteronomy 30:2and hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hearkened to His voice, according to all that I am commanding thee to-day, thou and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul —

Joshua 24:23and, now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, God of Israel.'

Judges 2:13yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.

Judges 10:16And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, 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 →

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