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Then Samuel addressed the whole house of Israel: “If you would return to the Lord with your whole heart, remove your foreign gods and your Astartes, fix your hearts on the Lord, and serve him alone, then the Lord will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”(A) So the Israelites removed their Baals and Astartes,[a] and served the Lord alone.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:4 Baals and Astartes: a Deuteronomistic phrase; cf. Jgs 2:13; 10:6; 1 Sm 12:10. Baal and Astarte were Canaanite divinities.

10 (A)Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, for we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.”

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