Now therefore: Arise, Lord God, come to Your resting place, You and Your powerful ark. May Your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly people rejoice in goodness.
The messenger answered,“ Israel has fled from the Philistines, and also there was a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
The Danites set up the carved image for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the Danite tribe until the time of the exile from the land.
She named the boy Ichabod, saying,“ The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and to the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.“ The glory has departed from Israel,” she said,“ because the ark of God has been captured.”After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue.