1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Yahuah with all your hearts, put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Yahuah, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Context
1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Yahuah, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Yahuah.
2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Yahuah.
3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Yahuah with all your hearts, put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Yahuah, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Yahuah only.
5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Yahuah.