1 The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
1 Samuel 6:1 Cross References - NHEB
1 Samuel 5:1
1 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
1 Samuel 5:3
3 And the Ashdodites rose early on the next day, and look, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they raised up Dagon and set him in his place again.
1 Samuel 5:10-11
10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, "Why have you brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people?"
11 And they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, so that it will not kill us and our people." For there was a very heavy terror of death throughout all the city when the ark of God arrived there.
Psalms 78:61
61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.