Joshua 3:3

3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God ¹  being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here ²  and walk ³  behind it.

Joshua 3:6

3:6 Joshua told the priests, “Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.

Joshua 6:6

6:6 So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, “Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 31:26

31:26 “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

Jeremiah 3:16

3:16 In those days, your population will greatly increase ⁴  in the land. At that time,” says the Lord, “people will no longer talk about having the ark ⁵  that contains the Lord’s covenant with us. ⁶  They will not call it to mind, remember it, or miss it. No, that will not be done any more! ⁷ 

Acts 7:44-45

7:44 Our ancestors ⁸  had the tabernacle ⁹  of testimony in the wilderness, ¹⁰  just as God ¹¹  who spoke to Moses ordered him ¹²  to make it according to the design he had seen. 7:45 Our ¹³  ancestors ¹⁴  received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, ¹⁵  until the time ¹⁶  of David.

Acts 7:1

Stephen’s Defense Before the Council

7:1 Then the high priest said, “Are these things true?” ¹⁷ 

Colossians 1:24-25

1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ. 1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship ¹⁸  from God – given to me for you – in order to complete ¹⁹  the word of God,

Hebrews 9:4

9:4 It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark ²⁰  were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

¹ sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.

² tn Heb “set out from your place.”

³ tn Or “march.”

⁴ tn Heb “you will become numerous and fruitful.”

⁵ tn Or “chest.”

⁶ tn Heb “the ark of the covenant.” It is called this because it contained the tables of the law which in abbreviated form constituted their covenant obligations to the Lord, cf. Exod 31:18; 32:15; 34:29.

⁷ tn Or “Nor will another one be made”; Heb “one will not do/make [it?] again.”

⁸ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

⁹ tn Or “tent.”

¹⁰ tn Or “desert.”

¹¹ tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must be supplied for the modern English reader.

¹³ tn Grk “And.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

¹⁴ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

¹⁵ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “In those days.”

¹⁷ tn Grk “If it is so concerning these things” (see BDAG 422 s.v. ἔχω 10.a for this use).

¹⁸ tn BDAG 697 s.v. οἰκονομία 1.b renders the term here as “divine office.”

¹⁹ tn See BDAG 828 s.v. πληρόω 3. The idea here seems to be that the apostle wants to “complete the word of God” in that he wants to preach it to every person in the known world (cf. Rom 15:19). See P. T. O’Brien, Colossians, Philemon (WBC), 82.

²⁰ tn Grk “in which”; in the translation the referent (the ark) has been specified for clarity.