1st Samuel Chapter 7 verse 4 Holy Bible
Then the children of Israel did put away the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, and served Jehovah only.
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So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.
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And the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths and served Jehovah 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 put away Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
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Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
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And the sons of Israel turn aside the Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serve Jehovah alone;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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 Ph?nician 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.
