1 Kings 8:9

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.

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  • Exod 25:21 : 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
  • Heb 9:4 : 4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
  • Exod 40:20 : 20 He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
  • Deut 4:13 : 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
  • Exod 34:27-28 : 27 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." 28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. 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 from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
  • Deut 10:2-5 : 2 I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark." 3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand. 4 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me. 5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
  • Deut 31:26 : 26 "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
  • 1 Kgs 8:21 : 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
  • 2 Chr 5:10 : 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put [there] at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
  • 2 Chr 5:13-14 : 13 it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!" that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh, 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.
  • 2 Chr 7:1-3 : 1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house. 2 The priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house. 3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [saying], "For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever."
  • Ezek 10:4 : 4 The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh's glory.
  • Exod 40:34-35 : 34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.
  • Lev 16:2 : 2 and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
  • Num 9:15 : 15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony: and at evening it was over the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
  • Num 17:10 : 10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die."
  • Exod 13:21 : 21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
  • Exod 14:24 : 24 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
  • Exod 16:10 : 10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
  • Exod 16:33 : 33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
  • Exod 24:7-8 : 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient." 8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
  • Exod 24:16-18 : 16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on 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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    7 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

    8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

    9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.

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

  • Deut 10:1-5
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    1 At that time Yahweh said to me, "Cut two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

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

    3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.

    4 He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.

    5 I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.

  • 1 Kgs 8:6-8
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    6 The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

    7 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

    8 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.

  • Deut 9:9-11
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    9 When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.

    10 Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

    11 It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

  • Heb 9:4
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    4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

  • 1 Kgs 8:21
    74%

    21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."

  • 2 Chr 6:11
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    11 There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel."

  • 1 Kgs 8:10
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    10 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh,

  • Exod 25:14-16
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    73%

    14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

    15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

    16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

  • Exod 32:15-16
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    15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

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

  • Exod 35:12
    73%

    12 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;

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

  • Deut 9:15
    72%

    15 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

  • Exod 40:20-21
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    72%

    20 He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.

    21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Exod 39:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35 the ark of the testimony with its poles, the mercy seat,

    36 the table, all its vessels, the show bread,

  • Deut 4:13
    72%

    13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    72%

    19 He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

  • Exod 31:7-8
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    71%

    7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

    4 They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

  • Exod 34:27-28
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    70%

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

    28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

  • Deut 31:25
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    25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,

  • Josh 8:32
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    32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 34:4
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    4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

  • Deut 29:1
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    1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

  • Exod 37:5
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    5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

  • Judg 20:27
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    27 The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

  • 1 Sam 6:1
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    1 The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

  • Exod 40:3
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    3 You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

  • 1 Sam 6:15
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    15 The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.