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Often appears with: temples, shrines, and sacred places · religious persecution and toleration · miracles and divine intervention · walls of first hostile city · uzzah · two stone tablets · tribe of levi · the fear of death · talut appointed · table and candlestick · tabernacle offerings · scripture and its interpretation
Usually: narrative (4) · reverence (3) · description (1) · law or decree (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
“Allah will test you at the stream: if any drinks of its water, He goes not with my army: Only those who taste not of it go with me: A mere sip out of the hand is excused.” Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H., Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by · observation
“the place where he died is still called the Breach of Uzzah unto this day.” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · observation
God commands a voluntary collection for the sanctuary and gives detailed instructions for sacred furnishings, especially the ark, mercy seat, table, and golden candlestick to be made like shown in the mount.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel that they give me an heave offering, and of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take it. And this is the heave offering which ye shall take of them: gold, silver and brass: and Iacinth colour, scarlet, purple, byss and goat's hair: ram's skins that are red, and the skins of taxus and sethim wood, oil for lights, and spice…
Bezalel makes the ark of the covenant, mercy seat, table, candlestick, and incense altar with detailed dimensions and gold overlays, along with sacred anointing oil and incense.
And Bezaleel made the ark of sethim wood two cubits and an half long and a cubit and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high: and overlaid it with fine gold both within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about, and cast for it four rings of gold for the four corners of it: two rings for the one side and two for the other, and made staves of Sethim wood, and covered them with gold, and put the staves …
Moses describes hewing new stone tablets, putting them in the Ark, Israel’s journey through named stops after Aaron’s death, and the LORD’s further call to love, fear, and cleave to Him.
In the same season the LORD said unto me: hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an Ark of wood, and I will write in the table, the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of sethim wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mountain and the two tables in m…
Augustine explains that the law was kept in the ark of the covenant, authenticated by signs like the Jordan crossing, collapsing city walls, and the ark’s miraculous return by untended cows.
17. _Concerning the ark of the covenant, and the miraculous signs whereby God authenticated the law and the promise._ On this account it was that the law of God, given by the disposition of angels, and which commanded that the one God of gods alone receive sacred worship, to the exclusion of all others, was deposited in the ark, called the ark of the testimony. By this name it is sufficiently indicated, not that God…
David consults elders to bring the Ark of God from Kirjathjearim to Jerusalem with public music and processions, but Uzzah dies when he touches the ark, prompting a delay at Obededom.
pursued them to the city Gaza [which is the limit of their country]: after this he spoiled their camp, in which he found great riches; and he destroyed their gods. 2. When this had proved the event of the battle, David thought it proper, upon a consultation with the elders, and rulers, and captains of thousands, to send for those that were in the flower of their age out of all his countrymen, and out of the whole la…
Qur'an 2:247–2:248 explains that Allah appoints Talut (and the ark of the covenant) as signs of authority, and that the ark’s arrival, carrying relics of Moses and Aaron, reassures believers.
Lord, and the relics left by the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, carried by angels. In this is a symbol for you if ye indeed have faith." P: And their Prophet said unto them: Lo! the token of his kingdom is that there shall come unto you the ark wherein is peace of reassurance from your Lord, and a remnant of that which the house of Moses and the house of Aaron left behind, the angels bearing it. Lo! herein…