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.

As the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, (D)all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 4:3 Or he