^6:21So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”

^7:1Then the people¹ 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.

Further Conflict with the Philistines

^7:2It was quite a long time—some twenty years in all—that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people² of Israel longed for³ the Lord.

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Footnotes

1 Heb “men.”
2 Heb “house” (also in the following verse).
3 Heb “mourned after”; “mourned and sought after”; , “lamented after”; “turned to”; “began to follow … again.”