1 Kings 8:9

New American Bible - revised edition

There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets which Moses had put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they went forth from the land of Egypt.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:21

I have provided there 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.” Solomon’s Prayer.

2 Chronicles 5:10

There was nothing in the ark but the two tablets which Moses had put there at Horeb when the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they went forth from Egypt.

2 Chronicles 5:9

The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary. (They cannot be seen from outside, but they remain there to this day.)

Exodus 13:21

The Lord preceded them, in the daytime by means of a column of cloud to show them the way, and at night by means of a column of fire to give them light. Thus they could travel both day and night.

Exodus 14:24

But during the watch just before dawn, the Lord looked down from a column of fiery cloud upon the Egyptian army and threw it into a panic;

Exodus 16:10

But while Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they turned in the direction of the wilderness, and there the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud!

Exodus 16:33

Moses then told Aaron, “Take a jar and put a full omer of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to keep it for your future generations.”

Exodus 25:16

In the ark you are to put the covenant which I will give you.

Exodus 25:21

This cover you shall then place on top of the ark. In the ark itself you are to put the covenant which I will give you.

Exodus 40:20

He took the covenant and put it in the ark; he placed poles alongside the ark and set the cover upon it.

Ezekiel 10:4

The glory of the Lord had moved off the cherubim to the threshold of the temple; the temple was filled with the cloud, the whole court brilliant with the glory of the Lord.

Leviticus 16:2

and said to him: Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he pleases into the inner sanctuary, inside the veil, in front of the cover on the ark, lest he die, for I reveal myself in a cloud above the ark’s cover.

Numbers 17:10

Remove yourselves from this community, that I may consume them at once. But they fell prostrate.

Numbers 9:15

On the day when the tabernacle was erected, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant; but from evening until morning it took on the appearance of fire over the tabernacle.

Deuteronomy 31:26

Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord, your God, that there it may be a witness against you.

Deuteronomy 4:13

He proclaimed to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep: the ten words, which he wrote on two stone tablets.

Hebrews 9:4

in which were the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant entirely covered with gold. In it were the gold jar containing the manna, the staff of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tablets of the covenant.

Revelation 15:8

Then the temple became so filled with the smoke from God’s glory and might that no one could enter it until the seven plagues of the seven angels had been accomplished.