Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Nothing

Exodus 25:21
And thou shall put the mercy-seat above upon the ark. And in the ark thou shall put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which thou broke, and thou shall put them in the ark.
2 Chronicles 5:10
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put [there] at Horeb when LORD made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

In the ark

Exodus 16:33
And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna in it, and lay it up before LORD, to be kept throughout your generations.
Numbers 17:10
And LORD said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a sign against the sons of rebellion, that thou may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.
Hebrews 9:4
having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid entirely in gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

Put there at horeb

Exodus 25:21
And thou shall put the mercy-seat above upon the ark. And in the ark thou shall put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exodus 40:20
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark.
Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which thou broke, and thou shall put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy 31:26
Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

When

1 Kings 8:21
And there I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of LORD, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that LORD has made with you concerning all these words.
Exodus 34:27
And LORD said to Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:13
And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone.

General references

Exodus 16:34
As LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus 25:16
And thou shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.