²¹So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of Yahweh. Come down and take it up to yourselves.”

Revival and Victory at Mizpah

7The men of Kiriath Jearim came and brought up the ark of Yahweh, and they brought it to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah. They consecrated Eleazer his son to guard the ark of Yahweh. ²From^a the day the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, days multiplied and became twenty years^b while all the house of Israel mourned after Yahweh.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “And it happened from”
bLiterally “and the days were numerous, and they were twenty years”