1 Samuel 7:2

New International Version

The ark remained at Kiriath Jearim a long time—twenty years in all. Then all the people of Israel turned back to the Lord.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 13:3

Let us bring the ark of our God back to us, for we did not inquire of it during the reign of Saul.”

1 Chronicles 13:5

So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.

Jeremiah 26:20

(Now Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord; he prophesied the same things against this city and this land as Jeremiah did.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel’s father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Joshua 9:17

So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim.

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

1 Samuel 7:1

So the men of Kiriath Jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord. They brought it to Abinadab’s house on the hill and consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:3

So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”