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1 Samuel 7:1-2
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 7:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 7
1 Some men from Kiriath-jearim came and took the Ark of the Lord away. They brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill, and they consecrated Eleazar, his son, to take care of the Ark of the Lord.
Samuel the Judge.[a] 2 The Ark remained at Kiriath-jearim for a long time, for twenty years. All of the people of Israel lamented after the Lord.
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- 1 Samuel 7:2 This story seems to have been written in the North for the purpose of exalting the person of Samuel by depicting him as the greatest of the judges of Israel and the deliverer of God’s people.
