1 Kings 8:9

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

There was nothing in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of the land of Egypt.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    There was nothing in the ark{H727} save{H7535} the two{H8147} tables{H3871} of stone{H68} which Moses{H4872} put{H3240} there at Horeb,{H2722} when Jehovah{H3068} made{H3772} a covenant with the children{H1121} of Israel,{H3478} when they came out{H3318} of the land{H776} of Egypt.{H4714}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    There was nothing in the ark{H727} save{H7535} the two{H8147} tables{H3871} of stone{H68}, which Moses{H4872} put{H3240}{(H8689)} there at Horeb{H2722}, when the LORD{H3068} made{H3772}{(H8804)} a covenant with the children{H1121} of Israel{H3478}, when they came out{H3318}{(H8800)} of the land{H776} of Egypt{H4714}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And in the Arke there was nothinge, but onely the two tables of stone, which Moses had layed therin at Horeb, whan ye LORDE made a couenaunt with the children of Israel, what tyme as they were departed out of the londe of Egipte.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Nothing was in the Arke saue the two tables of stone which Moses had put there at Horeb, where the Lorde made a couenant with the children of Israel, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And there was nothing in the arke saue the two tables of stone, which Moyses put there at Horeb, in ye which tables the Lorde made an appoyntment with the children of Israel when he brought them out of the lande of Egypt.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [There was] nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    There is nothing in the ark, only the two tables of stone which Moses put there in Horeb, when Jehovah covenanted with the sons of Israel in their going out of the land of Egypt.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. It was there that the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 25:21 : 21 Place the mercy seat on top of the ark, and put into the ark the testimony that I will give you.
  • Heb 9:4 : 4 It had the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered with gold on all sides. Inside the ark were a golden jar containing the manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
  • Exod 40:20 : 20 He took the testimony and placed it in the ark, inserted the poles into the ark, and set the atonement cover on top of the ark.
  • Deut 4:13 : 13 He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to keep—the Ten Commandments—and He wrote them on two stone tablets.
  • Exod 34:27-28 : 27 The LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." 28 Moses was there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights. He did not eat any bread or drink any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
  • Rev 15:8 : 8 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and His power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
  • Deut 10:2-5 : 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you shall put them inside the ark. 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and I cut two stone tablets like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain carrying the two tablets in my hands. 4 The LORD wrote on the tablets, just as He had done the first time, the Ten Commandments that He had proclaimed to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. Then the LORD gave them to me. 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and I placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me, and they are there to this day.
  • Deut 31:26 : 26 'Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.
  • 1 Kgs 8:21 : 21 And there I have placed a place for the Ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our ancestors when He brought them out of Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 5:10 : 10 There was nothing in the Ark except the two tablets Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 5:13-14 : 13 The trumpeters and singers joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: 'He is good; His love endures forever.' Then the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud, 14 and the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
  • 2 Chr 7:1-3 : 1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 2 The priests could not enter the Temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it. 3 When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped, giving thanks to the LORD, saying, "He is good; His love endures forever."
  • Ezek 10:4 : 4 Then the glory of the Lord rose up from above the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the Lord's glory.
  • Exod 40:34-35 : 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. 35 Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 The LORD said to Moses, "Tell your brother Aaron that he must not come at any time into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain, in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the atonement cover.
  • Num 9:15 : 15 On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, which is the tent of the testimony. In the evening, it appeared above the tabernacle as something like fire until morning.
  • Num 17:10 : 10 'Move away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.' And they fell facedown.
  • Exod 13:21 : 21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.
  • Exod 14:24 : 24 During the last watch of the night, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army from the pillar of fire and cloud and threw it into confusion.
  • Exod 16:10 : 10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole assembly of the Israelites, they turned toward the wilderness, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.
  • Exod 16:33 : 33 Moses then said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Place it before the LORD to be preserved for future generations."
  • Exod 24:7-8 : 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey." 8 Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."
  • Exod 24:16-18 : 16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day, the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud. 17 The appearance of the LORD's glory was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the sight of the Israelites. 18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 5:7-10
    4 verses
    95%

    7 The priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim.

    8 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its poles from above.

    9 The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. They remain there to this day.

    10 There was nothing in the Ark except the two tablets Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

  • Deut 10:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

    1 At that time, the LORD said to me, 'Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and come up to Me on the mountain, and make yourself a wooden ark.'

    2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke, and you shall put them inside the ark.

    3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and I cut two stone tablets like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain carrying the two tablets in my hands.

    4 The LORD wrote on the tablets, just as He had done the first time, the Ten Commandments that He had proclaimed to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. Then the LORD gave them to me.

    5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and I placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me, and they are there to this day.

  • 1 Kgs 8:6-8
    3 verses
    77%

    6 The priests placed the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD in its place inside the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, under the wings of the cherubim.

    7 The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the Ark, and the cherubim overshadowed the Ark and its poles from above.

    8 The poles were so long that their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but were not visible from outside; they remain there to this day.

  • Deut 9:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread or drink water.

    10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the words the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

    11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

  • Heb 9:4
    75%

    4 It had the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered with gold on all sides. Inside the ark were a golden jar containing the manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

  • 1 Kgs 8:21
    74%

    21 And there I have placed a place for the Ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our ancestors when He brought them out of Egypt.

  • 2 Chr 6:11
    74%

    11 And there I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that He made with the people of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10
    74%

    10 When the priests withdrew from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.

  • Exod 25:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.

    15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed.

    16 Place inside the ark the testimony that I will give you.

  • Exod 32:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands—tablets that were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

    16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

  • Exod 35:12
    73%

    12 The ark with its poles, the atonement cover, and the curtain to shield it.

  • Exod 31:18
    73%

    18 When the LORD finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

  • Deut 9:15
    72%

    15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was ablaze with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

  • Exod 40:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 He took the testimony and placed it in the ark, inserted the poles into the ark, and set the atonement cover on top of the ark.

    21 Then he brought the ark into the Tabernacle, hung the veil as a partition, and shielded the ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 39:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35 The Ark of the Covenant with its poles and the atonement cover were brought as well.

    36 They brought the table with all its utensils and the bread of the Presence.

  • Deut 4:13
    72%

    13 He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to keep—the Ten Commandments—and He wrote them on two stone tablets.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    72%

    19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the house to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

  • Exod 31:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant, and the atonement cover upon it, and all the furnishings of the tent,

    8 the table and its utensils, the pure lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

  • 1 Kgs 8:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 When all the elders of Israel arrived, the priests carried the Ark.

    4 The priests and Levites brought up the Ark of the LORD, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent.

  • Exod 34:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27 The LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

    28 Moses was there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights. He did not eat any bread or drink any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

  • Deut 31:25
    70%

    25 he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

  • Josh 8:32
    70%

    32 There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.

  • Exod 34:4
    70%

    4 So Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, carrying the two stone tablets in his hands.

  • Deut 29:1
    70%

    1 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

  • Exod 37:5
    70%

    5 He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.

  • Judg 20:27
    70%

    27 And the Israelites inquired of the LORD (the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in those days),

  • 1 Sam 6:1
    70%

    1 The ark of the LORD remained in the territory of the Philistines for seven months.

  • Exod 40:3
    70%

    3 Place the ark of the testimony there and shield the ark with the curtain.

  • 1 Sam 6:15
    69%

    15 The Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box containing the gold objects and placed them on the large stone. That day, the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.