And the children of Yisrael journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Givon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiryat-Yearim.
And the men of Kiryat-Yearim came, and fetched up the ark of YY , and brought it into the house of AbiNadav in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of YY .
And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kiryat-Yearim, a city of the children of Yhudah: this was the west quarter.
And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kiryat-Yearim:
That they feared greatly, because Givon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of YY thy Elohim: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
And the children of Yisrael smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by YY Elohim of Yisrael. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
And they went up, and pitched in Kiryat-Yearim, in Yhudah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kiryat-Yearim.
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiryat-Yearim, saying, The Plishtim have brought again the ark of YY ; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Binyamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Binyamin.
And the families of Kiryat-Yearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites,
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of YY , UriYAH the son of Shemaiah of Kiryat-Yearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Yirmeyah-yahu.
And Ismaiah the Givonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Yirmeyah-yahu, and YAHaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,