There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses placed there at Mount Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel after they left Egypt.
The writer is explaining that the ark of the covenant contained only the original stone tablets with God's commandments that Moses received at Mount Sinai.
📚 Historical Context
This verse describes the contents of the ark of the covenant when Solomon's temple was dedicated around 960 BC. The ark had been Israel's most sacred object for centuries, containing the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses at Mount Horeb (another name for Mount Sinai) during the Exodus from Egypt around 1440 BC. By Solomon's time, only these original covenant tablets remained in the ark.
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