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"They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
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A Picture of Christ
Multiple commentators, including Spurgeon and Gill, see the ark as a powerful symbol of Jesus Christ. The incorruptible acacia wood represents His perfect, sinless human nature, while the overlay of pure gold signifies His divine nature. Just as the ark was both wood and gold, Jesus is both fully man and fully God.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
(). The ark is uniformly designated in Exodus as the ark of the testimony. Elsewhere it is called the testimony, the ark of the covenant (most freq…
19th Century
Anglican
THE ARK.
They shall make an ark. — Arôn, the word here rendered “ark,” is an entirely different word from …
Baptist
The ark of the covenant was the most sacred object in the tabernacle in the wilderness. It stood at the extreme end of the holy of holies. It was t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they shall make an ark of shittim wood A chest or coffer to put things into, and into this were to be put the tw…
The ark was a chest, overlaid with gold, in which the two tables of the law were to be kept. These tables are called the testimony; God in them tes…
