1-Samuel - 7:4



4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Samuel 7:4.

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Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and served the Lord only.
And the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths and served Jehovah only.
And the sons of Israel turn aside the Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serve Jehovah alone;
So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.
Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
Therefore, the sons of Israel took away the Baals and Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord alone.

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Historical Commentaries

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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.

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth,.... Both their male and female deities, of which see Judges 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.
(i) Works, vol. 1. p. 54.

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