1Sa 6:21-7:2 | ESV | STEP | So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim , saying , The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord . Come down and take it up to you.

1 Samuel 6:21

21 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of ^aKiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to you.”

1 Samuel 7:1-2

1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of ^bAbinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the Lord. 2 From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.