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1 Samuel 7:2-4
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 7:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Samuel the Judge.[a] 2 The Ark remained at Kiriath-jearim for a long time, for twenty years. All of the people of Israel lamented after the Lord.
3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you intend to return to the Lord with your whole heart, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods you have among you, the Astartes, and commit your hearts to serve the Lord alone, then he will deliver you out of the hands of the Philistines.” 4 So the Israelites threw away their Baals and Astartes,[b] and served the Lord alone.
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- 1 Samuel 7:2 This story seems to have been written in the North for the purpose of exalting the person of Samuel by depicting him as the greatest of the judges of Israel and the deliverer of God’s people.
- 1 Samuel 7:4 Baals and Astartes: these are Canaanite gods whose union was believed to bring fertility to the earth.
