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1 Samuel 7:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So the Israelites removed the Baals and the Ashtoreths  and only worshipped the Lord.

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Ephraim, why should I  have anything more to do with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing pine tree; your fruit comes from me.


Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim, “Our gods! ” to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in you.’


For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites.  They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgements as his father David did.


for they abandoned him and worshipped Baal and the Ashtoreths.


The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.  They worshipped the Baals


Samuel told them, ‘If you  are returning to the Lord   with all your heart,  get rid of the foreign gods  and the Ashtoreths that are among you, set your hearts on the Lord, and worship only him.  Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.’


Samuel said, ‘Gather all Israel at Mizpah,  and I will pray to the Lord on your behalf.’


and when they return to you with all their heart and all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city which you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,


Solomon followed Ashtoreth,  the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom,  the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.


He even tore down the altar at Bethel  and the high place  that had been made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.





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