Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.
      2. He cautions them against idolatry: "Turn not aside from God and the worship of him" (1 Samuel 12:20; 1 Samuel 12:21); "for if you turn aside from God, whatever you turn aside to, you will find it is a vain thing, that can never answer your expectations, but will certainly deceive you if you trust to it; it is a broken reed, a broken cistern." Idols could not profit those that sought to them in their wants, nor deliver those that sought to them in their straits, for they were vain, and not what they pretended to be. An idol is nothing in the world,1 Corinthians 8:4.