1 Samuel 7:3 Cross References - Thomson

³ Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If with your whole heart you turn to the Lord, put away the strange gods from among you, and the bowers, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve him alone, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

² Thereupon Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods which are with you and purify yourselves and change your garments;

¹³ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him alone, and cleave to him, and swear by his name.

²⁰ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and cleave to him, and swear by his name.

⁴ You shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and hearken to his voice, and cleave to him.

² and shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice, according to all that I this day command thee, with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul; ³ the Lord will heal thy sins, and have compassion on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations among which the Lord hath dispersed thee. ⁴ Though thy dispersion may have been from one end of the earth to the other, thence the Lord thy God will gather thee, ⁵ and thence the Lord thy God will take thee, and thence thy God will bring thee, into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: And he will deal kindly with thee, and make thee more numerous than thy fathers: ⁶ And the Lord will purify thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, that thou mayst live. ⁷ And the Lord thy God will lay all these curses upon thine enemies, and upon them who hate thee, and have persecuted thee. ⁸ When thou shalt return, and hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and perform these commandments of his, which I this day enjoin thee, ⁹ the Lord thy God will bless thee in every work of thy hands, in the offspring of thy body, and in the increase of thy cattle, and in the products of thy land; for the Lord thy God will turn again to rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers, ¹⁰ if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, and these judgments of his which are written in this book of the law; if thou wilt turn to the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul.

¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with sincerity and truth, and put away the strange gods which our fathers worshipped in beyond the river, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

²³ Now therefore put away the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel.

¹³ So when they forsook him, and served Baal, and the Astartees,

⁶ And the children of Israel proceeded again to do evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals, and the Astartes, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and did not serve him.

¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord alone. Whereupon his heart relented at the distress of Israel.

¹⁰ And they hung up his arms in the temple of Astarte, and fixed, up his body on the wall of Baithsam.

⁴⁸ and turn to thee with their whole heart, and with their whole soul, in the land of their enemies, to which thou hast transported them; and direct their prayers to thee, toward this land which thou gavest to their fathers, and this city which thou hast chosen, and this house which I have built for thy name;

¹⁹ Now therefore apply your hearts, and your souls to seek the Lord your God and arise and build a sanctuary for your God, that you may carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house to be built for the name of the Lord.

⁹ And now, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts and knoweth every thought. If thou seek him, he will be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will at last forsake thee.

³ but for the good works which have been found in thee, and for thy having removed the bowers out of the land of Juda, and directed thy heart to seek the Lord.

¹⁹ which hath directed its course to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, although not according to the purification of the sanctuary.

¹³ For if thou hast made thy heart pure, and lift thy hands to him: ¹⁴ if there be any iniquity in thy hand, put it far from thee; and let not injustice lodge in thy dwelling.

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⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

³ For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up for yourselves fallow grounds and sow not among thorns: ⁴ be circumcised for your God and circumcise the stubbornness of your hearts, O men of Juda and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath break out like a fire and burn; and there be none to quench it, because of the wickedness of your devices.

³¹ Cast away from you all your impious acts; which you have impiously committed against me; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: now why do you die, house of Israel,

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, "Come, let us return to the Lord our God, for it is he who hath torn and he can heal us. He can smite, and into our wounds he can pour balm; ² in two days he can restore us to health; on the third day we shall be raised up and live before him.

¹ [p] Israel, return to the Lord thy God. Seeing they have been weakened for thine iniquities,

¹² Now therefore saith the Lord your God, turn to me with your whole heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. ¹³ Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering and full of compassion, and relenteth at evils.

¹⁰ Whereupon Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan: for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him alone.

²⁴ No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate one and love the other; or he will attend to one and neglect the other. You cannot serve God and a worldly temperent

⁸ This people draw near to me with their mouth; and with their lips they honour me, but their heart is far from me;

⁸ Thereupon Jesus, answering him, said, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only thou shalt serve."

²⁴ God is Spirit; and they who worship him ought to worship him in spirit and truth.