1 Samuel 7:3 (NKJV): 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.”
Why did Israel have “foreign gods” among them? What was the cause of them turning away from the Lord?