1 Samuel 7:4 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 7:4

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.

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ASV

Then the children of Israel did put away the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, and served Jehovah only.

WEB

So the Israelites put away the Baals and Ashtoreths and served only the LORD.

YLT

And the sons of Israel turn aside the Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serve Jehovah alone;

DBT

And the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths and served Jehovah only.

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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7 verses on the floor

Hosea 14:8
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
Hosea 14:3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Judges 2:13
And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
1 Kings 11:33
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
Judges 10:15–16
And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.

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The re-establishment of the faith of their fathers was inaugurated at a great public meeting, held at Mizpeh in Judah, and hallowed by the observance of impressive religious solemnities.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

): They put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, not only quitted the worship of them, but destroyed their images, demolished their altars, and quite abandoned them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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