1 Samuel 7:2

And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long,.... It could not be less than between forty and fifty years, for it remained here until the times of David, who…

And all the house of Israel lamented ... - The occupation of the country about Shiloh by the Philistines 1Sa 7:3 was partly the reason for the ark being kept so long at Kirjath-jearim. But another…

It was twenty years - This chapter contains the transactions of at least twenty years, but we know not the date of each event.

Here we must attend the ark to Kirjath-jearim, and then leave it there, to hear not a word more of it except once (Sa1 14:18), till David fetched it thence, about forty years after, Ch1 13:6.

I. We…

The National Repentance and Reformation under Samuel

2. And it came to pass, &c. Better, And it came to pass, from the day when the ark rested in Kirjath-jearim, that a long time elapsed, even twenty…