1 Samuel 7:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

Return

Prepare

Serve him

General references

Ecclesiastes 9:17

Bible References

Return

and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and all your soul by doing everything I am giving you today,

and when they return to You with their whole mind and heart
in the land of their enemies who took them captive,
and when they pray to You in the direction of their land
that You gave their ancestors,
the city You have chosen,
and the temple I have built for Your name,

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us,
and He will heal us;
He has wounded us,
and He will bind up our wounds.

Israel, return to Yahweh your God,
for you have stumbled in your sin.

Even now—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
turn to Me with all your heart,
with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Prepare

The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.

Now determine in your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Get started building the Lord God’s sanctuary so that you may bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy articles of God to the temple that is to be built for the name of Yahweh.”

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

whoever sets his whole heart on seeking God, Yahweh, the God of his ancestors, even though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”

As for you, if you redirect your heart
and lift up your hands to Him in prayer—

The reflections of the heart belong to man,
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:

Break up the unplowed ground;
do not sow among the thorns.

Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

These people

honor Me with their lips,

but their heart is far from Me.

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Serve him

Fear Yahweh your God, worship Him, and take your oaths in His name.

You are to fear Yahweh your God and worship Him. Remain faithful to Him and take oaths in His name.

You must follow the Lord your God and fear Him. You must keep His commands and listen to His voice; you must worship Him and remain faithful to Him.

Then Jesus told him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written:

Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only

Him.”

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

And Jesus answered him, “It is written:

Worship the Lord your God,
and serve

Him only.”

General references

The calm words of the wise are heeded
more than the shouts of a ruler over fools.