² So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you.^(A) Purify yourselves and change your clothes.^(B)

³³ And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah,^[a] which had been given to his son Phinehas^(A) in the hill country of Ephraim.

³ Samuel told them, “If you^(A) are returning to the Lord^(B) with all your heart,^(C) get rid of the foreign gods^(D) and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to^[a] the Lord, and worship only Him.^(E) Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”

¹⁵ He removed the foreign gods and the idol^(A) from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.