"... Many texts that reflect the Zion-Sabaoth theology evince the belief that in earlier periods the ark sometimes left its abode to go to war. What is crucial for our purposes is that the ark’s movement entailed God’s own movement. Thus, when an old poetic fragment in the Book of Numbers describes the ark going to war and returning, it also refers simply to God’s travel out of and back to its normal place of rest ... The terminology associated with the Zion-Sabaoth theology and the ark occurs frequently in connection with the Shiloh temple, where God dwelt throughout the period of the Judges (see, e.g., 1 Samuel 1.11). It also occurs often in the story of the ark’s ascent to its new home in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6:2 and 18). This terminology is especially prominent in Psalm 24, which was sung whenever the ark entered the temple – that is, when Yhwh entered the temple. This occurred not just when the ark first entered the temple in Solomon’s time, but on a repeated basis, either after battle or on a holiday such as the New Year’s festival, which commemorated Yhwh’s victory in the primordial battle against chaos ..."