[220] 1 Sam. xiv. 52.
[221] 1 Sam. xiii. 2.
[222] 1 Sam. xiv. 3, 18, 37; xxviii. 6.
[223] 1 Sam. xxviii. 3, 9.
[224] 2 Sam. xxi. 2, 5.
[225] The ark was brought by David from Kirjath-jearim to Zion. That could not take place before the year 1025 B.C. Saul's death falls, as was assumed above, in the year 1033 B.C. But the ark is said to have been at Kirjath-jearim 20 years (1 Sam. vii. 2; vi. 21), it must therefore have been carried thither 1045 B.C., or a few years later. The stay among the Philistines must have been more than seven months, as stated in 1 Sam. vi. 61; the stay at Beth-shemesh was apparently only a short one. The battle at Tabor and Eli's death cannot, as shown above, be placed much later than 1070 B.C. According to 1 Sam. xiv. 3; xviii. 19, the ark was in Saul's army at the battle of Michmash, and Ahijah (Ahimelech), the great-grandson of Eli, was its keeper.
[226] 1 Chron. xxvi. 28.
[227] Only one concubine is mentioned, by whom Saul had two sons.
[228] 1 Sam. xviii. 3, 17-20, 28; xxii. 4.
[229] 1 Sam. xvii., xviii., xxiii. 28.