2And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
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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.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. …
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)There were four things in and by which God showed himself reconciled to Israel and made them truly great and happy, and in which God’s goodness took occasion from their badness to make him the more illustrious:— I. He gave them his law, gave it to them in writing, as a standing pledge of his favour. Though the tables that were first written were broken, because Israel had broken the commandments,…
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