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 you shall put the mercy-seat above, upon the ark. And in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.
Deuteronomy 10:2
And I will write on the tablets the words that were in the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
2 Chronicles 5:10
Nothing was in the ark except the two tables which Moses put in it at Horeb, when Jehovah 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 omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations.
Numbers 17:10
And Jehovah said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept as a token against the rebels. And you shall completely take away their murmurings from Me so that they do not die.
Hebrews 9:4
having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all around with gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

Put there at horeb

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

When

1 Kings 8:21
And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Jehovah 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, which Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.
Exodus 34:27
And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words for yourself; for on the mouth of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:13
And He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, ten commandments. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

General references

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