³ Now Ahijah, the son of Ahitub (the brother of Ichabod), the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of Yahweh at Shiloh, was carrying an ephod. The troops did not know that Jonathan had gone.

¹⁸ Then Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring near the ark of God”^[a] (for the ark of God was at that time^[b] with the Israelites).^[c]