1 Samuel 7:3-4

If we will get rid of the little gods in our life and make God first we will be restored. What does God require of us? God requires us to love Him with all our heart, mind and spirit and to love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves. Is this too much to ask from the One who made us and gave us life?

Repentance from sin and expressions of loyalty to God were prerequisites for the restoration of divine blessing. Ashtoreths is the plural form of the name of the Canaanite goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war. The rites connected with her worship usually involved sacred prostitution.

In ancient sculptures, Baal was depicted with a horned helmet. In one hand he grasped a club or mace and in the other a shaft of lightning or a spear with leaves. In some sculptures, he stood on the back of a bull. The plurals Baals and Ashtoreths refer either to the many images of these gods or to the various local forms under which these gods were worshiped.

1 Samuel 7:3-4

3 Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the children of Israel put away the iBaals and the Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only.