¹⁹ Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the vale of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

¹⁰ So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.