When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines?(A) Let’s bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh. Then it[a] will go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”(B) So the people sent men to Shiloh to bring back the ark of the covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim.(C) Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. When the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a loud shout that the ground shook.(D)

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  1. 1 Samuel 4:3 Or He

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