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
Moses kept the sheep of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he drove the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
Exodus 19:3
And Moses went up unto God. And the LORD called to him out of the mountain saying, "Thus say unto the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel,
Exodus 24:17
And the fashion of the glory of the LORD was like consuming fire on the top of the hill in the sight of the children of Israel.

Went before

Exodus 33:14
And he said, "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest."
Deuteronomy 1:33
which goeth the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents in; in fire by night - that ye might see what way to go - and in a cloud by day.
Joshua 3:2
And after three days the officers went throughout the host,
Jeremiah 31:8
Behold, I will bring them again from out of the north land, and gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and lame that are among them, with the women that be great with child, and such as be also delivered: and the company of them that come again, shall be great.
Ezekiel 20:6
even in the day that I lift up mine hand over them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land that I have provided for them, which floweth with milk and honey, and it is a pleasant land among all others:

A resting place

Psalm 95:11
Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.
Isaiah 28:12
"This shall bring rest, if one refresh the weary, yea this shall bring rest." But they had no will to hear.
Isaiah 66:1
Thus sayeth the LORD: Heaven is my seat, and the earth is my footstool. Where shall now the house stand, that ye build unto me? And where shall be the place, that I will dwell in?
Jeremiah 6:16
Thus sayeth the LORD, "Go into the streets, consider and make inquisition for the old way: and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may find rest for your souls. But they say, 'We will not walk therein.'
Matthew 11:28
Come unto me all ye that labor, and are laden, and I will ease you.
Hebrews 4:3
But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid.

General references

Exodus 37:1
And Bezalel made the ark of sethim-wood two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high: