After many days, Shu`a's daughter, the wife of Yehudah, died. Yehudah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Chirah, the `Adullami.
I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against `Ekron; and the remnant of the Pelishtim will perish,* says the Lord GOD.
but the Amori would dwell in Mount Cheres, in Ayalon, and in Sha`alvim: yet the hand of the house of Yosef prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.
So they sent the ark of God to `Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to `Ekron, that the `Ekroni cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Yisra'el to us, to kill us and our people.