³³ The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

⁶ His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

³ But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

¹⁴ And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

⁴ But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

³ Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

³ For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

¹⁹ Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.