time was long. Ark remained with Philistines seven months (1 Samuel 6:1); sent from Ekron to Kirjathjearim in 1040, and remained there twenty years (1 Samuel 7). From the capture (in 1040BC) to its entry into Zion (in 950BC) was eighty-nine years (2 Samuel 7:17).
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1 Samuel 7:2
2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.