(For while the Ark abode in Kirjath Jearim, the time was long, for it was twenty years) and all the house of Israel lamented [a]after the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 7:2 Lamented for their sins, and followed the Lord.

The ark remained at Kiriath Jearim(A) a long time—twenty years in all.

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Then all the people of Israel turned back to the Lord.(B)

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