1 Kings 8:9

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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.

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  • Exod 25:21 : 21 You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.
  • Heb 9:4 : 4 It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
  • Exod 40:20 : 20 He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark.
  • Deut 4:13 : 13 And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing 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 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
  • Rev 15:8 : 8 and the temple was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from his power. Thus no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues from the seven angels were completed.
  • Deut 10:2-5 : 2 I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.” 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. 4 The LORD then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me. 5 Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made– they are still there, just as the LORD commanded me.
  • Deut 31:26 : 26 “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,
  • 1 Kgs 8:21 : 21 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
  • 2 Chr 5:10 : 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two 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.)
  • 2 Chr 5:13-14 : 13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the LORD, singing:“Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the LORD’s temple. 14 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s splendor filled God’s temple.
  • 2 Chr 7:1-3 : 1 Solomon Dedicates the Temple When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the LORD’s splendor filled the temple. 2 The priests were unable to enter the LORD’s temple because the LORD’s splendor filled the LORD’s temple. 3 When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the LORD’s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying,“Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”
  • Ezek 10:4 : 4 Then the glory of the LORD arose from the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud while 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 not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 and the LORD said to Moses:“Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the holy place inside the special curtain in front of the atonement lid that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement lid.
  • Num 9:15 : 15 The Leading of the Lord On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle– the tent of the testimony– and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle.
  • Num 17:10 : 10 The Memorial The LORD said to Moses,“Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”
  • Exod 13:21 : 21 Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.
  • Exod 14:24 : 24 In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.
  • Exod 16:10 : 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the wilderness, there the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud,
  • Exod 16:33 : 33 Moses said to Aaron,“Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the LORD to be kept for generations to come.”
  • Exod 24:7-8 : 7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said,“We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.” 8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
  • Exod 24:16-18 : 16 The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people. 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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  • 2 Chr 5:7-10
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    7The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubim.

    8The cherubim’s wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

    9The poles were so long their ends extending out from the ark were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. They have remained there to this very day.

    10There was nothing in the ark except the two 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.)

  • Deut 10:1-5
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    1The Opportunity to Begin Again At that same time the LORD said to me,“Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

    2I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

    3So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

    4The LORD then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me.

    5Then I turned, went down the mountain, and placed the tablets into the ark I had made– they are still there, just as the LORD commanded me.

  • 1 Kgs 8:6-8
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    6The priests brought the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim.

    7The cherubim’s wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.

    8The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. They have remained there to this very day.

  • Deut 9:9-11
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    9When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

    10The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

    11Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

  • Heb 9:4
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    4It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

  • 1 Kgs 8:21
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    21and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

  • 2 Chr 6:11
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    11and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with the Israelites.”

  • 1 Kgs 8:10
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    10Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the LORD’s temple.

  • Exod 25:14-16
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    14and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.

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

    16You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

  • Exod 32:15-16
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    15Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides– they were written on the front and on the back.

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

  • Exod 35:12
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    12the ark, with its poles, the atonement lid, and the special curtain that conceals it;

  • Exod 31:18
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    18He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

  • Deut 9:15
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    15So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

  • Exod 40:20-21
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    20He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark.

    21And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung the protecting curtain, and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 39:35-36
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    72%

    35the ark of the testimony and its poles, and the atonement lid;

    36the table, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;

  • Deut 4:13
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    13And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
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    19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.

  • Exod 31:7-8
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    7the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid that is on it, all the furnishings of the tent,

    8the table with its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

  • 1 Kgs 8:3-4
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    3When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests lifted the ark.

    4The priests and Levites carried the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy items in the tent.

  • Exod 34:27-28
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    27The LORD said to Moses,“Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

    28So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

  • Deut 31:25
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    25he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant,

  • Josh 8:32
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    32There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses.

  • Exod 34:4
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    4So Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first; early in the morning he went up to Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

  • Deut 29:1
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    1Narrative Interlude(28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

  • Exod 37:5
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    5and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark.

  • Judg 20:27
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    27The Israelites asked the LORD(for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;

  • 1 Sam 6:1
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    1The Philistines Return the Ark When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines for seven months,

  • Exod 40:3
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    3You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

  • 1 Sam 6:15
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    15The Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.