Samuel told them, “If you(A) are returning to the Lord(B) with all your heart,(C) get rid of the foreign gods(D) and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to[a] the Lord, and worship only Him.(E) Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 7:3 Lit you and set your hearts on

But if you return to Me and carefully observe My commands, even though your exiles were banished to the ends of the earth,[a] I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have My name dwell.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 1:9 Lit skies

20 On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,(A)
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.

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22 Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

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Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.(A)
Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;(B)
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.(C)

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30 “Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.”(A) This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so they will not be a stumbling block that causes your punishment.

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