1 Samuel 4:2-4

International Standard Version

² The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

³ When the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord defeat us today when we fought the Philistines? Let’s take the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from Shiloh, so it^[a] may go with us and deliver us from the power of our enemies.” ⁴ So the people sent word^[b] to Shiloh and took away from there the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, who sits above^[c] the cherubim.

Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the Ark of the Covenant of God.