Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
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Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
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Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
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Then the children of Israel did put away the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 7:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hosea 14:8 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
- Hosea 14:3 Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
- Judges 2:11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
- Judges 2:13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
- Judges 10:15-16 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.” They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- 1 Kings 11:33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 7:4 Then the children of Israel did put…
1Sa 7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
Ver. 4. Then the children of Israel did put away, &c.] Their he-gods and their she-gods: so powerful is the word coming upon the rod, when God is pleased by his Spirit to second and set it on. Samuel might speak persuasively, as doubtless he had done for twenty years before, but God only persuadeth the heart.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim…
Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth,.... Both their male and female deities, of which see Jdg 2:13.
and served the Lord Only; Dr. Lightfoot (i) observes, that a spirit of repentance and conversion came generally upon all the people; a matter and a time as remarkable as almost any we read of in Scripture, one only parallel to it; and that is in Acts, chapters two and three, at the great conversion there.
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(i) Works, vol. 1. p. 54.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. Put away Baalim and Ashtaroth] These were…
Verse 4. Put away Baalim and Ashtaroth] These were not two particular deities, but two genera of idols; the one masculine, BAALIM; the other feminine, ASHTAROTH; both the words are in the plural number, and signify all their gods and goddesses.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 7:4-5. Then the children of Israel did put…
1Sa 7:4-5. Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim, &c. — Samuel’s reproofs and instructions, and the representations he made of their sin and danger, touched their hearts, and induced them to break off their sins by repentance. Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you — He could have prayed for them himself alone in private, but he knew it would tend to perfect the repentance and reformation begun among them, and to establish them in God’s service, to engage them to unite with him in that duty; and it was well worth while for them to come from the most distant part of the country to join with Samuel in seeking God’s favour. Doubtless Samuel prayed both that they might, by the grace of God, be separated from their idols, and then, by the providence of God, delivered from the Philistines.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Baalim and Ashtaroth — Male and female deities…
4. Baalim and Ashtaroth — Male and female deities of several of the neighbouring nations, especially of the Zidonians. See on Jdg_2:11-13. Israel repeatedly fell into the worship of these idol gods.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Then the children of Israel did put away…
(4) Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth.—The answer of the people showed how well and thoroughly the prophet-statesman had done his Master’s work. Through the land of Israel the graven images of the Phœnician idols were thrown down, and their impious worship everywhere was boldly dishonoured, and once more, in bold defiance of the idol-worshipping Philistines, the Invisible and Eternal was throughout the land acknowledged as the one God. These acts, of course, were an open act of rebellion against that warlike people who for so long had ruled them with an iron rule.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Then the children of Israel did put away the…
Then the children of Israel did put away the Baalim and the Ashtaroth. This must have been done by a public act, by which at some time previously arranged the images of their Baals and Astartes were torn from their shrines, thrown down, and broken in pieces. Of course this was an overt act of rebellion, for these deities were especially Phoenician idols, and subsequently it was the Phoenician Jezebel who tried so fanatically to introduce their worship into Israel in Ahab"s time. To cast off the Philistine deities was equivalent to a rebellion generally against Philistine supremacy. Baal and Astarte, the husband and the wife, represented the reproductive powers of nature, and under various names were worshipped throughout the East, and usually with lewd and wanton orgies.
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