Ark of the Covenant Bible Study

¹⁰ And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
¹¹ And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
¹² And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
¹³ And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
¹⁴ And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
¹⁵ The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
¹⁶ And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

... and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

¹ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
² See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
³ And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
⁴ To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
⁵ And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it ...

²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the Tabernacle southward.
³⁰ And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
³¹ And their charge shall be the Ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.

¹ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
² Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
³ From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the Tabernacle of the congregation.

⁴ This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
⁵ And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
⁶ And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tabernacle of the congregation.

¹⁷ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying,
¹⁸ Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
¹⁹ But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
²⁰ But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

And when Moses was gone into the Tabernacle of the congregation to speak with Him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the Mercy seat that was upon the Ark of Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and He spake unto him.

² Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
³ But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
⁴ Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
⁵ And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the Kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
⁶ And He said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his Father.

¹ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
² And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
³ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the Ark.
⁴ And they brought up the Ark of the LORD, and the Tabernacle of the congregation, and all the Holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
⁵ And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the Ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
⁶ And the priests brought in the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD unto His place, into the oracle of the house, to the Most Holy Place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
⁷ For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the Ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
⁸ And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the Holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
⁹ 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.
¹⁰ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the Holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
¹¹ So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

¹ Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
² And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
³ And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were Holy unto the LORD, Put the Holy Ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and His people Israel,
⁴ And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

¹ Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
² For there was a Tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
³ And after the second veil, the Tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
⁴ Which had the golden censer, and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
⁵ And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the Mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
⁶ Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first Tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
⁷ But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
⁸ The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first Tabernacle was yet standing:
⁹ Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
¹⁰ Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
¹¹ But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
¹² Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the Holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
¹³ For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
¹⁴ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
¹⁵ And for this cause He is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
¹⁶ For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
¹⁷ For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
¹⁸ Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
¹⁹ For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
²⁰ Saying, This is the blood of the Testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
²¹ Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the Tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
²² And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
²³ It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the Heavens should be purified with these; but the Heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
²⁴ For Christ is not entered into the Holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
²⁵ Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest entereth into the Holy place every year with blood of others;
²⁶ For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
²⁸ So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall he appear the second time without sin unto Salvation.

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.

³ And after the second veil, the Tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
⁴ Which had the golden censer, and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the Covenant;
⁵ And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the Mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

³³ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
³⁴ As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

¹⁰ And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the Testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.
¹¹ And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.

And the Temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His Temple the Ark of His Testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The Ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.