1 Kings 8:9

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.

Nothing

Exodus 25:21

Deuteronomy 10:2

2 Chronicles 5:10

In the ark

Exodus 16:33

Numbers 17:10

Hebrews 9:4

Put there at horeb

When

General references

Exodus 16:34

Exodus 25:16

Bible References

Nothing

And you will put the atonement cover above onto the ark, and into the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you.

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former [tablets], which you smashed, and you must put them in the ark.'

There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put [inside] at Horeb [on] which Yahweh had {made} a covenant with the {Israelites} when they went out from Egypt.

In the ark

And Moses said to Aaron, "Take one jar and put there a full omer of manna. Leave it before Yahweh for safekeeping for your generations."

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Bring back the staff of Aaron before the testimony as a guard and sign for the children of rebellion, and let them finish their grumblings before me and not die."

containing the golden incense altar and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which [were] a golden jar containing the manna and the rod of Aaron that budded and the tablets of the covenant.

Put there at horeb

And you will put the atonement cover above onto the ark, and into the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you.

And he took and he put the testimony into the ark, and he placed the poles on the ark, and he put the atonement cover on the ark, above [it].

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former [tablets], which you smashed, and you must put them in the ark.'

"Take the scroll of this law and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and it will be there as a witness against you.

When

I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant which Yahweh made with our ancestors when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."

And Moses took the blood and sprinkled [it] on the people, and he said, "Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words."

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Write for yourself these words, because {according to} these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

And he declared to you his covenant, {the Ten Commandments}, which he charged you {to observe}, and he wrote them on [the] two tablets of stone.

General references

As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping.

And you will put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.