1 Kings 8:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ There I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And I have made there a place for the ark [the token of His presence], in which is the covenant [the Ten Commandments] of the Lord which He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. [Exod. 34:28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Common English Bible

²¹ There I’ve placed the chest that contains the covenant that the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And there I have appointed a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he struck with our fathers, when they went forth from the land of Egypt."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:21 Cross References

1 Kings 8:9

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Go and build the sanctuary of the Lord God so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into the house built for the name of the Lord.”

Exodus 24:8

Moses took the blood and dashed it on the people, and said, “Here is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Exodus 34:28

He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Deuteronomy 31:26

“Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; let it remain there as a witness against you.

Deuteronomy 9:11

At the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.