1 Samuel 6:21–7:2

²¹They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim to say, “The Philistines have returned the Lord’s Covenant Box. Come down and fetch it.”

7^*So the people of Kiriath Jearim fetched the Lord’s Covenant Box and took it to the house of a man named Abinadab, who lived on a hill. They consecrated his son Eleazar to be in charge of it.

Samuel Rules Israel

²The Covenant Box of the Lord stayed in Kiriath Jearim a long time, some twenty years. During this time all the Israelites cried to the Lord for help.