Hebrews 9:4

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Hebrews 9:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.

3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

4 containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

5 Above the ark were the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

6 When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties.

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Leviticus 16:12

Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.

1 Kings 7:50

the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place ) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

Revelation 8:3

Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.

Exodus 25:10

And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Exodus 25:11

Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

Exodus 25:12

Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

Exodus 25:13

And make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 25:14

Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.

Exodus 25:15

The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed.

Exodus 25:16

And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.

Exodus 26:33

And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 37:1

Bezalel went on to construct the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Exodus 37:2

He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.

Exodus 37:3

And he cast four gold rings for its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

Exodus 37:4

Then he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 37:5

He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry it.

Exodus 39:35

the ark of the Testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;

Exodus 40:3

Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

Exodus 40:21

Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Exodus 16:33

So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

Exodus 16:34

And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 17:5

The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”

Numbers 17:8

The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.

Numbers 17:10

The LORD said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebellious, so that you may put an end to their grumbling against Me, lest they die.”

Psalms 110:2

The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Psalms 110:3

Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

Exodus 25:21

Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.

Exodus 34:29

And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

Exodus 40:20

Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.

Deuteronomy 10:2

And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to place them in the ark.”

Deuteronomy 10:3

So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:4

And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

Deuteronomy 10:5

and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD had commanded me; and there they have remained.

1 Kings 8:9

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 8:21

And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

2 Chronicles 5:10

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.