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1 Samuel 7:4

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth,.... Both their male and female deities, of which see Jud 2:13and served the Lord Only; Dr. Lightfoot observes, that a spirit of repentance and conversion came generally upon all the people; a matter and a time as remarkable as almost any we read of in Scripture, one only parallel to it; and that is in Acts, chapters two and three, at the great conversion there.

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