1 Samuel 7:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the ark was in Kiriath-jearim for a long time, as much as twenty years: and all Israel was searching after the Lord with weeping.

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  • Judg 2:4 : 4 Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
  • Jer 3:22-25 : 22 Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God. 23 Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. 24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
  • Zech 12:10-11 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son. 11 In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
  • Matt 5:4 : 4 Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
  • 2 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death. 11 For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

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  • 1 Sam 7:1
    80%

    1 So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care.

  • 1 Sam 6:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines for seven months.

    2 And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?

  • Judg 20:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

    27 And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,

  • 1 Sam 6:21
    72%

    21 And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.

  • 1 Chr 13:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    5 So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

    6 And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones.

    7 And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and took it out of the house of Abinadab; and Uzza and Ahio were the drivers of the cart.

  • 1 Sam 14:18
    72%

    18 And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time.

  • 2 Chr 1:4
    71%

    4 But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 15:29
    70%

    29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

  • 1 Sam 4:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3 And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.

    4 So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.

    5 And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it.

    6 And the Philistines, hearing the noise of their cry, said, What is this great cry among the tents of the Hebrews? Then it became clear to them that the ark of the Lord had come to the tent-circle.

  • 1 Chr 13:3
    70%

    3 And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
    70%

    2 And David, and all the people who were with him, went to Baal of Judah to get the ark of God, over which the holy name is named, the name of the Lord of armies, whose place is between the winged ones.

  • 2 Sam 6:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

    11 And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family.

  • 2 Sam 6:13
    69%

    13 And when those who were lifting the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he made an offering of an ox and a fat young beast.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
    69%

    3 And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  • 2 Chr 5:4
    69%

    4 All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

  • 1 Sam 7:3
    69%

    3 Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 13:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12 And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

    13 So David did not let the ark come back to him to the town of David, but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

    14 And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for three months; and the Lord sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom and on all he had.

  • 2 Sam 15:24
    68%

    24 Then Zadok came, and Abiathar, and with them the ark of God's agreement: and they put down the ark of God, till all the people from the town had gone by.

  • 2 Sam 6:4
    68%

    4 And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it.

  • 1 Sam 4:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21 And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

    22 And she said, The glory is gone from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.

  • 1 Sam 4:17
    68%

    17 And the man said, Israel went in flight from the Philistines, and there has been great destruction among the people, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken.

  • 2 Sam 2:11
    68%

    11 And the time when David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah was seven years and six months.

  • Num 9:22
    68%

    22 Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey.

  • 2 Sam 6:17
    68%

    17 And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 15:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25 So David, and the responsible men of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went with joy to get the ark of the agreement of the Lord out of the house of Obed-edom.

    26 And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    68%

    14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    68%

    10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 1 Sam 27:7
    68%

    7 And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.

  • 1 Sam 5:8
    68%

    8 So they sent for all the lords of the Philistines to come together there, and said, What are we to do with the ark of the God of Israel? And their answer was, Let the ark of the God of Israel be taken away to Gath. So they took the ark of the God of Israel away.

  • 1 Sam 6:13
    67%

    13 And the people of Beth-shemesh were cutting their grain in the valley, and lifting up their eyes they saw the ark and were full of joy when they saw it.

  • Judg 13:1
    67%

    1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

  • 1 Kgs 2:11
    67%

    11 David was king over Israel for forty years: for seven years he was king in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

  • Jer 3:16
    67%

    16 And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.

  • 1 Sam 4:11
    67%

    11 And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.

  • 1 Sam 6:15
    67%

    15 Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.

  • Deut 2:14
    67%

    14 Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.

  • 1 Sam 4:13
    67%

    13 And when he came, Eli was seated by the wayside watching: and in his heart was fear for the ark of God. And when the man came into the town and gave the news, there was a great outcry.

  • 1 Chr 15:3
    67%

    3 And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.