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Then the people[a] of Kiriath Jearim came and took the ark of the Lord; they brought it to the house of Abinadab located on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 7:1 tn Heb “men.”

Further Conflict with the Philistines

It was quite a long time—some twenty years in all—that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people[a] of Israel longed for[b] the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 7:2 tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).
  2. 1 Samuel 7:2 tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”