5And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
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:
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
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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