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
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.
Deuteronomy 10:2
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."
2 Chronicles 5:10
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.

In the ark

Exodus 16:33
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."
Numbers 17:10
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."
Hebrews 9:4
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;

Put there at horeb

Exodus 25:21
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.
Exodus 40:20
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.
Deuteronomy 10:2
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."
Deuteronomy 31:26
"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.

When

1 Kings 8:21
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."
Exodus 24:8
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."
Exodus 34:27
Yahweh said to Moses, "Write you these words: for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
Deuteronomy 4:13
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.

General references

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