7:3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you are really turning to the Lord with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. 1 Give your hearts to the Lord and serve only him. Then he will deliver you 2 from the hand of the Philistines.”
1 tnHeb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity.
2 tn Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.