Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.

General references

Bible References

The mount

Exodus 3:1
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Exodus 19:3
Moses went up the mountain to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain: “This is what you must say to the house of Jacob, and explain to the Israelites:
Exodus 24:17
The appearance of the Lord’s glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop.

Went before

Exodus 33:14
Then He replied, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Deuteronomy 1:33
who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.
Joshua 3:2
After three days the officers went through the camp
Jeremiah 31:8
Watch! I am going to bring them from the northern land.
I will gather them from remote regions of the earth
the blind and the lame will be with them,
along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth.
They will return here as a great assembly!
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

A resting place

Psalm 95:11
So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”
Isaiah 28:12
He had said to them:
“This is the place of rest,
let the weary rest;
this is the place of repose.”
But they would not listen.
Isaiah 66:1
This is what the Lord says:

Heaven is My throne,
and earth is My footstool.
What house could you possibly build for Me?
And what place could be My home?
Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the Lord says:

Stand by the roadways and look.
Ask about the ancient paths:
Which is the way to what is good?
Then take it
and find rest for yourselves.
But they protested, “We won’t!”
Matthew 11:28
“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Hebrews 4:3
(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:

So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.


And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

General references

Exodus 37:1
Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

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