WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ark rested in the Holy of Holies inside the Tabernacle of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem and was seen only by the high priest of the Israelites on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The Levites (priestly functionaries) carried the Ark with them during the Hebrews’ wanderings in the wilderness.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nevertheless, Deuteronomy confirms that the testimony placed into the ark was the ten commandments spoken forth to the people upon mount Sinai and that they constituted the words of the covenant.

Detailed explanation-3: -The covenant that God gave at Mount Sinai reinforced the covenant that God had given to Abraham, and told the Jews what they would have to do as their side of the covenant. God again promised to stay with the Jews and never to abandon them, because they were his chosen people.

Detailed explanation-4: -2 Samuel 6 1 David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals. When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.