Exodus 25

Exodus 25:16

In the Arke] In the Arke were the two Tables of the Law and Covenant, See also Exod. XL. 20. And nothing else, 1 Kings VIII. 9. 2. Chron. V. 10. which Tables are called the Testimony, Exod. XXV. 16, 21. and Ch.

XXX. 6. and Ch. XL. 20. And the Arke is called The Arke of the Testimony, Exod. XXV. 22. and Ch. XXVI. 33. and Ch. XXX, 6, 26.

And the Mercie-seate is said to be upon the Testimony, Levit. XVI. 13. By the Arke was laid and kept the Pot of Manna, before the Testimony, Exod. XVI. 34. And Aarons Rod, before the Testimony, Num. XVII. 10.

And that Censer, Levit. XVI. 12. Heb. IX. 4. And the Book of the Law, in the side of the Arke, or on the outside of it, Deut. XXXI. 26.

Not onely those Pieces of it, Exod. XVII. 14. and Ch. XXIV. 4. and Ch. XXXIV. 27. and Deut. XXXI. 9, 22. But the whole Law and writings, and inspired Books of Moses.

And this seemes to some to be the Book found in Josiah’s time; and to have been lost in the dayes of wicked Manasseh, and Amon: Though the matters of that Book, when it was read to Josiah, and to all the people, seemed so strange unto them, as if no Copie of it at all, 25 or wondrous rare, had been extant among them.