Stop 23 · Into the Land and the Judges

Kiriath-jearim

The ark received

Sea of GalileeDead SeaDead SeaJudea22. Hebron and Mamre55. Bethel and Ai66. Bethlehem1313. Nebo1414. The Jordan and Gilgal1515. Jericho1616. Gibeon and Aijalon2121. The Sorek valley2222. Shiloh2424. Michmash and Gibeah2525. The Valley of Elah2626. Adullam3838. Tekoa and Anathoth3939. Maresha and Beit Guvrin4040. Lachish4444. Modi'in and Qumran4646. Ein Karem4747. Bethlehem, again4949. The Jordan at Qasr el-Yahud5050. The Judean wilderness6464. Bethany6565. Jericho, again7272. Emmaus7676. The Jerusalem to Gaza road7777. Lydda7878. Joppa2323. Kiriath-jearimKiriath-jearim
From 30,000 feet

The ark of God sits in a village house on a hill for twenty years while the nation mourns. It is waiting for a king who wants it.

Stop 23 of 84. 12 km from Jerusalem. Next stop, Michmash and Gibeah, is 17 km away.

Open your Bibles · we read aloud together

1 Samuel 7:1-2

1The 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. 2From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long; for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.

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