Discovery Box1 Samuel 4:5 
Context4:5 When the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived at the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly 1 that the ground shook.
1 Samuel 5:2
Context5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon.
1 Samuel 6:11
Context6:11 They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the chest, the gold mice, and the images of the sores.
1 Samuel 6:13
Context6:13 Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight.
1 Samuel 6:20
Context6:20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark 2 go up from here?”
1 Samuel 7:2
ContextFurther Conflict with the Philistines
7:2 It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people 3 of Israel longed for 4 the Lord.
1 tn Heb “shouted [with] a great shout.”
2 tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the
3 tn Heb “house” (also in the following verse).
4 tn Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”
