Samuel’s Judging Israel Began with Calling the People to Repentance

1 Samuel 7.1. And the men of Kiriat-Jearim came and brought back the Ark of the LORD* and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill and sanctified Elazar his son to keep the Ark of the LORD*. 2. And it was, while the Ark remained in Kiriat-Jearim, that the time was long, for it was twenty years. And the entire House of Israel mourned after, submitted to, the LORD*.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.