8 Consequently they sent and gathered all the axis lords of the Phi·lisʹtines to them and said: “What shall we do to the ark of the God of Israel?” Finally they said: “Toward Gath+ let the ark of the God of Israel go around.” So they brought the ark of the God of Israel around to there.*

14 And the cities that the Phi·lisʹtines had taken from Israel kept coming back to Israel from Ekʹron to Gath, and the territory of them Israel delivered from the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines.

And there came to be peace between Israel and the Amʹor·ites.+

4 And a champion began to go out from the camps of the Phi·lisʹtines, his name being Go·liʹath,+ from Gath,+ his height being six cubits and a span.*+