1 Kings 8:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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  • Exod 25:21 : 21 And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you.
  • Heb 9:4 : 4 Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;
  • Exod 40:20 : 20 And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it;
  • Deut 4:13 : 13 And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.
  • Exod 34:27-28 : 27 And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you. 28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.
  • Rev 15:8 : 8 And the house of God was full of smoke from the glory of God, and from his power, and no one was able to go into the house of God, till the seven punishments of the seven angels were ended.
  • Deut 10:2-5 : 2 And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark. 3 So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands. 4 And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me. 5 And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.
  • Deut 31:26 : 26 Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that it may be a witness against you.
  • 1 Kgs 8:21 : 21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 5:10 : 10 Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 5:13-14 : 13 And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord, 14 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 7:1-3 : 1 Now when Solomon's prayers were ended, fire came down from heaven, burning up all the offerings; and the house was full of the glory of the Lord. 2 And the priests were not able to go into the house of the Lord, for the Lord's house was full of the glory of the Lord. 3 And all the children of Israel were looking on when the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord was on the house; and they went down on their knees, with their faces to the earth, worshipping and praising the Lord, and saying, He is good; for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
  • Ezek 10:4 : 4 And the glory of the Lord went up from the winged ones and came to rest over the doorstep of the house; and the house was full of the cloud and the open square was full of the shining of the Lord's glory.
  • Exod 40:34-35 : 34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord; 35 So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.
  • Num 9:15 : 15 And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.
  • Num 17:10 : 10 And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.
  • Exod 13:21 : 21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night:
  • Exod 14:24 : 24 And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians;
  • Exod 16:10 : 10 And while Aaron was talking to the children of Israel, their eyes were turned in the direction of the waste land, and they saw the glory of the Lord shining in the cloud.
  • Exod 16:33 : 33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.
  • Exod 24:7-8 : 7 And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws. 8 Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words.
  • Exod 24:16-18 : 16 And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud. 17 And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

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  • 2 Chr 5:7-10
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    7 And the priests took the ark of the Lord's agreement and put it in its place, in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

    8 For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

    9 The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

    10 Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

  • Deut 10:1-5
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    1 At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

    2 And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.

    3 So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.

    4 And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

    5 And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.

  • 1 Kgs 8:6-8
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    6 And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.

    7 For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

    8 The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.

  • Deut 9:9-11
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    9 When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

    10 And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.

    11 Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.

  • Heb 9:4
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    4 Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;

  • 1 Kgs 8:21
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    21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Chr 6:11
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    11 And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10
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    10 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

  • Exod 25:14-16
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    14 And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.

    15 The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out.

    16 Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you.

  • Exod 32:15-16
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    15 Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back.

    16 The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.

  • Exod 35:12
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    12 The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it;

  • Exod 31:18
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    18 And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

  • Deut 9:15
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    15 So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

  • Exod 40:20-21
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    20 And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it;

    21 And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.

  • Exod 39:35-36
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    35 The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover;

    36 The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread;

  • Deut 4:13
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    13 And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
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    19 And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

  • Exod 31:7-8
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    7 The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent,

    8 And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,

  • 1 Kgs 8:3-4
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    3 And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

    4 They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

  • Exod 34:27-28
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    27 And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

    28 And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

  • Deut 31:25
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    25 Moses said to the Levites who were responsible for taking up the ark of the Lord's agreement,

  • Josh 8:32
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    32 And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 34:4
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    4 So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand.

  • Deut 29:1
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    1 These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.

  • Exod 37:5
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    5 These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.

  • Judg 20:27
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    27 And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,

  • 1 Sam 6:1
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    1 Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines for seven months.

  • Exod 40:3
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    3 And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it.

  • 1 Sam 6:15
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    15 Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.