1 Samuel 7:3-5

New Catholic Bible

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,^[a] and served the Lord alone.

⁵ Samuel then said, “Assemble all of the Israelites at Mizpah,^[b] and I will intercede to the Lord for you.”