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What is the Ark of Covenant?

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In simple layman's term, what is the Ark of Covenant?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago
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    The sacred chest located in the Most Holy of the tabernacle and, later, in the temple built by Solomon. The Ark was made at Jehovah’s command and according to his design.

    Bible writers designate the ark of the covenant in more than 20 different ways. The more common of these expressions, “the ark of the covenant [Heb., ʼarohnʹ hab·berithʹ; Gr., ki·bo·tosʹ tes di·a·theʹkes]” (Jos 3:6; Heb 9:4) and “the ark of the testimony” (Ex 25:22), are not peculiar to any certain writer and are used interchangeably.

    The Ark served as a holy archive for the safekeeping of sacred reminders or testimony, the principal contents being the two tablets of the testimony, or the Ten Commandments. (Ex 25:16) A “golden jar having the manna and the rod of Aaron that budded” were added to the Ark but were later removed sometime before the building of Solomon’s temple. (Heb 9:4; Ex 16:32-34; Nu 17:10; 1Ki 8:9; 2Ch 5:10) Just before Moses died, he gave a copy of the “book of the law” to the Levitical priests with instructions that it should be kept, not within, but “at the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, . . . as a witness there against you.”—De 31:24-26.

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    Source(s): jw.org
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Gold lined rectangular shaped box which contained all the stuff God gave moses.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    It actually means a tent.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    The container that holds the Ten Commandments.

  • 4 years ago

    The Ark of the covenant was a sacred chestmade by the ancient Israelites according to the command and design of God. It housed and protect the testimony, the 10 commandments written on to the stone tablets. However the Bible shows that the Ark is no longer needed because the covenant associated with it has been replaced with the new covenant one based on Jesus sacrifice. Hebrews 8:13, 12:24

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    it's a giant boat filled with 2 of every covenant

  • Mr. P
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    It is many things depending on your religious viewpoint and how much you have read.

    At it's simplest it is a box Moses kept the stone tablets in when he wrote the 10 commandments.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    It is a box that kills nazis.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    A fairy tale that was in an Indiana Jones movie.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    As a side note, a 2005 poll discovered that more than 10 percent of American adults think that Noah’s wife was Joan of Arc

    Source(s): Beyond The Crusades, p. 318 http://beyondthecrusades.com/
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