18 Then all the assembly of the sons of Israel were congregated at Shiʹloh,+ and they proceeded to locate the tent of meeting there,+ as the land was now subdued before them.+

3 When the people came to the camp the older men* of Israel began to say: “Why did Jehovah defeat us today before the Phi·lisʹtines?+ Let us take to ourselves from Shiʹloh the ark of Jehovah’s covenant,+ that it may come into our midst and may save us from the palm of our enemies.”