1 Samuel 6:1
Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
--------------------
1 Samuel 6:4
Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
-----
1 Samuel 7:1
The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took Yahweh’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep Yahweh’s ark.
-----
Numbers 4:20
but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
-----
Exodus 10:2
and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
-----
1 Samuel 4:1
The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
Public Domain