The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there.
"Bring hither the ark of God"  (1 Samuel 14:18).  The Septuagint (LXX) in this place reads "the ephod" instead of the "the ark of God," and some scholars prefer that reading.  It appears to us that Willis is correct in his observation that, "Saul's bringing the ark from Kiriath-jearim to Gibeah in a time of crisis is no more out of harmony with the statements in  1 Samuel 7:2 and in  2 Samuel 6:2 than David's taking the ark out of the tent he had made for it  (2 Samuel 6:17), so that it could accompany Joab and his army in the siege and conquest of Rabbah  (2 Samuel 11:11)."[15]