And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, Baalim and Astaroth. And prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers.
Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord; and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's.