Ark

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. NOAH'S
• Directions for building ofGenesis 6:14–16
• Noah and family preserved inGenesis 6:18Genesis 7:8Matthew 24:38Hebrews 11:71 Peter 3:20
• Animals saved inGenesis 6:19Genesis 6:20Genesis 7:1–16
• 2. Of BULLRUSHESExodus 2:3
• 3. IN THE TABERNACLE. Called THE ARK
• OF THE COVENANTNumbers 10:33Deuteronomy 31:26Joshua 4:71 Samuel 4:32 Samuel 15:241 Chronicles 15:251 Chronicles 17:1Jeremiah 3:16Hebrews 9:4
• OF THE TESTIMONYExodus 30:6
• OF THE LORDJoshua 4:111 Samuel 4:61 Samuel 6:12 Samuel 6:92 Samuel 15:122 Samuel 16:4
• OF GOD1 Samuel 3:31 Samuel 4:111 Samuel 4:171 Samuel 4:221 Samuel 6:31 Samuel 14:182 Samuel 6:72 Samuel 7:22 Samuel 15:251 Chronicles 13:121 Chronicles 15:11 Chronicles 15:21 Chronicles 15:151 Chronicles 15:241 Chronicles 16:1
• OF GOD'S STRENGTH2 Chronicles 6:41
• Sanctification ofExodus 30:26

The passages, in Bible order (93)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 6:14–16

   Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 6:14–162 voices

   “Make thee an ark of Gopher wood,.... It is not called a ship, for it was not made for sailing to any distant parts, but an ark or chest, being like one, flat bottomed, and ridged and sloping upwards, and was made for floating on the waters for a little way.

   “Make thee an ark - תבת tebath, a word which is used only to express this vessel, and that in which Moses was preserved, Exo 2:3, Exo 2:5. It signifies no more than our word vessel in its common acceptation - a hollow place capable of containing persons, goods, etc., without any particular reference to shape or form. Gopher wood - Some think the cedar is meant; others, the cypress.

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2. Genesis 6:18

   But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 6:182 voices

   “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood--The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Ge 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.

   “But with thee will I establish my covenant - (1.) The covenant of Providence, that the course of nature shall be continued to the end of time, not withstanding the interruption which the flood would give to it: this promise was immediately made to Noah and his sons, chap. ix, 8, &c. they were as trustees for all this part of the creation, and a great honour was thereby put upon him and his.

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3. Genesis 6:19

   And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 6:192 voices

   “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood--The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Ge 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.

   “To keep them alive - God might have destroyed all the animal creation, and created others to occupy the new world, but he chose rather to preserve those already created. The Creator and Preserver of the universe does nothing but what is essentially necessary to be done. Nothing should be wantonly wasted; nor should power or skill be lavished where no necessity exists; and yet it required more means and economy to preserve the old than to have created new ones.

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4. Genesis 6:20

   Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 6:202 voices

   “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood--The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Ge 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.

   “On that same day elephants came from the east, apes and peacocks approached from the south, other animals gathered from the west, and still others hastened to come from the north. Lions came from the jungles, and wild beasts arrived from their lairs.

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5. Genesis 7:1–16

   Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 7:1–162 voices

   “For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation - Those are righteous indeed that are righteous before God; that have not only the form of godliness by which they appear righteous before men, who may easily be imposed upon; but the power of it, by which they approve themselves to God, who searcheth the heart.

   “(5.) This call to Noah was a type of the call which the gospel gives to poor sinners. Christ is an ark already prepared, in whom alone we can be safe when death and judgment come. Now the burden of the song is, "Come, come;" the word says, "Come;" ministers say, "Come;" the Spirit says, "Come, come into the ark." 2.

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6. Genesis 7:8

   The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

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7. Exodus 2:3

   But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 2:32 voices

   “Boats of this description are seen daily floating on the surface of the river, with no other caulking than Nile mud (compare Isa 18:2), and they are perfectly watertight, unless the coating is forced off by stormy weather. flags--a general term for sea or river weed.

   “Thus Moses in a former age Escaped proud Pharaoh's foolish law, And as the savior of his race Prefigured Christ who was to come. A cruel edict had been passed Forbidding Hebrew mothers all, When sons were born to them, to rear These virile pledges …

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8. 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.”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 16:331 voice

   “A pot - The word here used occurs in no other passage. It corresponds in form and use to the Egyptian for a casket or vase in which oblations were presented.

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9. Exodus 16:34

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

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   “As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept. That is, before the ark of the testimony; when that was made, as it was in a little time after this, called the testimony, because it contained in it the law, which was a testimony or testification of the mind and will of God unto Israel, see Exo 25:16 the apostle says, the pot of manna was in the ark, Heb 9:4 that is, on one side of it; see Gill on Heb 9:4.

   “Laid it up before the testimony - The עדות eduth or testimony belonged properly to the tabernacle, but that was not yet built. Some are of opinion that the tabernacle, built under the direction of Moses, was only a renewal of one that had existed in the patriarchal times. See Clarke’s note on Exo 16:9. The word signifies reference to something beyond itself; thus the tabernacle, the manna, the tables of stone, Aaron’s rod, etc., all bore reference and testimony to that spiritual good which was yet to come, viz., Jesus Christ and his salvation.

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10. Exodus 25:10–15

    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.

    ›Commentary on Exodus 25:10–152 voices

    “But when the passage about the equipment of the tabernacle is read, believing that the things described therein are types, some seek for ideas which they can attach to each detail that is mentioned in connection with the tabernacle. Now so far as concerns their belief that the tabernacle is a type of something they are not wrong. But in rightly attaching the word of Scripture to the particular idea of which the tabernacle is a type, here they sometimes fall into error.

    “They shall make an ark - ארון aron signifies an ark, chest, coffer, or coffin. It is used particularly to designate that chest or coffer in which the testimony or two tables of the covenant was laid up, on the top of which was the propitiatory or mercy-seat, (see on Exo 25:17), and at the end of which were the cherubim of gold, (Exo 25:18-20), between whom the visible sign of the presence of the supreme God appeared as seated upon his throne.

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11. Exodus 25:16

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

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    “The testimony - The two tables of stone which were not yet given; these tables were called עדת eduth, from עד forward, onward, to bear witness to or of a person or thing. Not only the tables of stone, but all the contents of the ark, Aaron’s rod, the pot of manna, the holy anointing oil, etc., bore testimony to the Messiah in his prophetic, sacerdotal, and regal offices.

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12. Exodus 25:21

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

    ›Commentary on Exodus 25:211 voice

    “This propitiatory covering, as it might well be translated, was a type of Christ, the great propitiation, whose satisfaction fully answers the demands of the law, covers our transgressions, and comes between us and the curse we deserve. Thus he is the end of the law for righteousness.

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13. 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.

    ›Commentary on Exodus 26:331 voice

    “If the ancient custom of sacrifices is clear to you, let us see what these things also contain according to the mystical understanding. You heard that there were two sanctuaries, one, as it were, visible and open to the priests; the other, as it were, invisible and inaccessible. With the exception of the high priest alone, the others were outside.

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14. Exodus 30:6

    Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony—before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.

    ›Commentary on Exodus 30:62 voices

    “This altar typified the mediation of Christ: the brazen altar in the court was a type of Christ dying on earth; the golden altar in the sanctuary was a type of Christ interceding in heaven. This altar was before the mercy- seat, for Christ always appears in the presence of God for us; and his intercession is unto God of a sweet smelling savour.

    “Before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony - These words in the original are supposed to be a repetition, by mistake, of the preceding clause; the word הפרכת happarocheth, the veil, being corrupted by interchanging two letters into הכפרת haccapporeth, the mercy-seat; and this, as Dr. Kennicott observes, places the altar of incense before the mercy-seat, and consequently In the holy of holies! Now this could not be, as the altar of incense was attended every day, and the holy of holies entered only once in the year.

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15. Exodus 30:26

    Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,

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16. Exodus 35:12

    the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;

    ›Commentary on Exodus 35:121 voice

    “The covering - This is not the same as the covering of Exo 35:11, which denotes the covering of the tent (see Exo 26:14): the word is used here for the entrance curtains (see Exo 26:36; Exo 27:16).

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