1 Samuel 7:2
The Ark remained there in Kiriath-jearim from that day for a long time, in fact for twenty years. Everyone in Israel mourned and in repentance came back to the Lord.
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1 Chronicles 13:5So David summoned all of Israel, from the Shihor River of Egypt up to Lebo-hamath, to help bring the Ark from Kiriath-jearim.
Jeremiah 3:22Come back, unfaithful children, and I will heal your unfaithfulness. “We're here! Yes, we're coming back to you, because you are the Lord our God.”
Zechariah 12:10I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look at me whom they pierced, and they will wail in grief over him, mourning as for an only child, weeping bitterly as for a firstborn.
2 Corinthians 7:10The kind of sorrow God wants us to have makes us change our minds and brings salvation. This kind of sorrow leaves no sense of regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 7:2-3
The Ark at Kirjath-jearim. ( b. c. 1099.) 1 And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord , and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord . 2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord . Here we must attend the ark to Kirjath-jearim, and then leave it there, to hear not a word more of it except once ( ch.… Read the whole commentary →