1Sa 7:3-4, 2Ch 15:8-13, 29:10-11, Mal 4:6, Luk 1:17 | ESV | STEP | And Samuel said to all the house of Israel , If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart , then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only , and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines .

y ch. 7:27; Mal. 3:1; Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2

1 Samuel 7:3-4

Samuel Judges Israel

3 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, ^a“If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then ^bput away the foreign gods and the ^cAshtaroth from among you and ^ddirect your heart to the Lord ^eand serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.

2 Chronicles 15:8-13

8 As soon as Asa heard these words, ^fthe prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from ^gthe cities that he had taken in ^hthe hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord ⁱthat was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord. ^{▼▼Hebrew the vestibule of the Lord} 9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, ^kand those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. 10 They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 11 They sacrificed to the Lord on that day ^lfrom the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. 12 ^mAnd they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, 13 but that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, ⁿshould be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

2 Chronicles 29:10-11

10 Now ^oit is in my heart ^pto make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 11 My sons, do not now be negligent, ^qfor the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”

Malachi 4:6

6 And he will ^rturn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and ^sstrike the land with a decree of utter destruction.” ^{▼▼The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction}

Luke 1:17

17 and ^uhe will go before him ^vin the spirit and power of Elijah, ^wto turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and ^xthe disobedient to the wisdom of the just, ^yto make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”