You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
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You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
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And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
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And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
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Passages linked to Exodus 25:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 31:26 “Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.
- 1 Kings 8:9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
- 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;
- Exodus 16:34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
- Exodus 27:21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 30:6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
- Exodus 30:36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Exodus 31:18 When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.
- Exodus 32:15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
- Exodus 34:29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
- Exodus 38:21 These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
- Numbers 17:4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
- Deuteronomy 10:2-5 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.” So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Yahweh gave them to me. I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
- 2 Kings 11:12 Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”
- 2 Chronicles 34:14-15 When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses. Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
- Acts 7:44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
- Romans 3:2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The stone tables, the rod of Aaron and Manna…
The stone tables, the rod of Aaron and Manna which were a testimony of God’s presence.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark…
Exo 25:16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
Ver. 16. The testimony.] Those tables of the testimony, {Exo 31:18} that testified what God required of them, and would be a testimony against them if disobedient. {Deu 31:26}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To wit, the two tables of stone, wherein the…
To wit, the two tables of stone, wherein the decalogue was written, called the
testimony here, and Exo 30:6; Lev 16:13; and more fully the tables of the testimony, Exo 31:18; Num 1:50; because they were witnesses of that covenant made between God and his people, whence they are called the tables of the covenant, Deu 9:9, and the ark, the ark of the covenant, Num 10:33. This being as a public record both of God’s mercy promised to them, and of the duty and conditions required of them. See Exo 16:34.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold,.... Which…
And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold,.... Which some take to be in the form of birds, and others of winged animals, such as the like were never seen, so Josephus; the Jews commonly suppose they were in the form of young men, which they observe the word signifies in the Chaldee language; others, that they were in the form of an ox, the face of an ox and a cherub being the same, Eze 1:10 and indeed their form is best discerned from account of them in Ezekiel, and in the Revelation, and from the latter we best learn what they were; they were hieroglyphics or emblems, not of the two Testaments, as many of the ancients, nor of the angels, since they are distinguished from them, much less of the trinity of persons in the Godhead; but either of the saints and true believers in Christ in common, of both dispensations, legal and evangelical, and so signified by the number "two"; and being made of gold may denote their excellency, worth, and value in the esteem of Christ; for the precious sons of Sion are comparable to fine gold for their preciousness, solidity, and duration, as well as for their sincerity and simplicity; or rather of the ministers of the word in particular; and these may be signified by two, and at the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostles of the New; and the ministers of the word in all ages, and particularly during the reign of antichrist, are called the two witnesses that prophesy in sackcloth; and being said to be of gold, may respect the grace of God bestowed on "them", comparable to gold, the gifts of the Spirit of God they are furnished with, as well as the precious truths of the Gospel committed to their trust:
of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat; not of gold melted and poured into a mould, and so received the form of the cherubim; nor were they first made by themselves, and then placed at the two ends of the mercy seat, and soldered to it; but they were made of the same mass of gold with the mercy seat, and beaten out of it with an hammer, and planished and smoothed, and so wrought up into this form, as appears by the following verse; and may denote the union of believers to Christ, who are one body and one spirit with him; and the union of the Old and New Testament churches in him, and who are but one church, one body, of which he is the head; and as he is the foundation of the apostles or prophets, on whom they are laid, he is the cornerstone in which they are united; and so it may likewise signify the nearness of the ministers of the word to Christ, their dependence on him, and their partaking of the same gifts and graces of his Spirit, only in measure, being made by him able ministers of the Gospel.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. The testimony] The two tables of stone…
Verse 16. The testimony] The two tables of stone which were not yet given; these tables were called עדת eduth, from עד forward, onward, to bear witness to or of a person or thing. Not only the tables of stone, but all the contents of the ark, Aaron's rod, the pot of manna, the holy anointing oil, &c., bore testimony to the Messiah in his prophetic, sacerdotal, and regal offices.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Testimony, the law which testifies the will of God…
Testimony, the law which testifies the will of God to us. (Menochius) --- An authentic record. Jeremias (xxxii. 11,) uses præceptum in the same sense. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the testimony--that is, the two tables of stone, containing…
the testimony--that is, the two tables of stone, containing the ten commandments, and called "the testimony," because by it God did testify His sovereign authority over Israel as His people, His selection of them as the guardians of His will and worship, and His displeasure in the event of their transgressing His laws; while on their part, by receiving and depositing this law in its appointed place, they testified their acknowledgment of God's right to rule over them, and their submission to the authority of His law. The superb and elaborate style of the ark that contained "the testimony" was emblematic of the great treasure it held; in other words, the incomparable value and excellence of the Word of God, while its being placed in this chest further showed the great care which God has ever taken for preserving it.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Put into the ark the testimony — Hence…
16. Put into the ark the testimony — Hence the name “Ark of the Testimony,” (Exo_25:22.) This testimony was Jehovah’s declarations from the mount, which were afterward written by God’s finger upon two tables of stone (Exo_31:18.) They were to be deposited in the ark as a monumental witness of the will of God.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. the testimony] i.e. the attestation, or (cf. the…
16. the testimony] i.e. the attestation, or (cf. the cognate verb in Psa_50:7 ‘testify,’ Jer_11:7 ‘protest’) affirmation, averment, viz. of God’s will, and man’s duty, expressed in the Decalogue. In Dt. (Deu_4:45, Deu_6:17; Deu_6:20), and Deuteronomic writers (as 1Ki_2:3), and writers influenced by them (as Psa_119:2; Psa_119:14), the same—or almost the same—word is used, in the plural, of Divine commandments in general, as averments of God’s will; in P, in the singular, it occurs 36 times, for the Decalogue in particular, both absolutely, as here, v. 21, Exo_16:34, Lev_16:13 al., and in the expressions, the ark, tables, Dwelling (RV. tabernacle: see on v. 9), tent, and veil, of the testimony (v. 22, Exo_26:33, Exo_31:18, Exo_38:21, Lev_24:3, Num_1:50; Num_17:7, &c.). Cf. p. 193. ‘Testimony’ may also denote the law in general (Psa_19:7; Psa_119:88).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) The testimony which I shall give thee.—The two…
(16) The testimony which I shall give thee.—The two tables of stone were called “the Testimony” (comp. Exo_16:34), as being God’s witness against sin (Deu_31:26). As containing them, the ark was called “the ark of the testimony” (Exo_25:22; Exo_26:34; Exo_30:6; Exo_30:26, &c.; Num_4:5; Num_7:89; Jos_4:16).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The testimony which I will give thee, is undoubtedly…
The testimony which I will give thee, is undoubtedly the Decalogue, or in other words, the two tables of stone, written with the finger of God, and forming his testimony against sin. (Compare Deu_31:26, Deu_31:27) The main intention of the ark was to be a repository in which the two tables should be laid up.
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