Samuel Judges Israel

³ Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “^(A)If you are to return to Yahweh with all your heart, then ^(B)remove the foreign gods and the ^(C)Ashtaroth from among you and ^(D)set your hearts toward Yahweh and ^(E)serve Him alone; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

^9 (A)but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been banished were at the ends of the sky, I ^(B)will gather them from there and will bring them ^(C)to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell.’

²² And you will defile your graven ^(A)images overlaid with your silver, and your molten ^(B)images plated with your gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing and say to ^[a]them, “^(C)Be gone!”

³⁰ “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his way,” declares Lord Yahweh. “^[a](A)Turn back and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.