Rest of the Land Divided

18 Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled themselves at (A)Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

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When the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “(A)Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? (B)Let us take to ourselves from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that [a]it may come among us and deliver us from the power of our enemies.” So the people sent to Shiloh, and from there they carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts (C)who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 4:3 Or he