Rend Your Heart

³³ To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”^(A)

⁸ While your servant was living at Geshur^(A) in Aram, I made this vow:^(B) ‘If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the Lord in Hebron.^[a]’”

¹⁵ But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites,^(A) in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household,^(B) we will serve the Lord.”^(C)

¹⁸ And the Lord drove out^(A) before us all the nations,^(B) including the Amorites, who lived in the land.^(C) We too will serve the Lord, because he is our God.^(D)”

²¹ But the people said to Joshua, “No! We will serve the Lord.”

²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”^(A)

²⁰ “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil;^(A) yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.