Sentences with phrase «ark of the covenant»

Also, Jews didn't symbolically carry around god in the ark of the covenant.

24 After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, 25 he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord: 26 «Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God.

(Gen. 31:19, 30 - 35) The ark of the covenant, the most revered emblem of the Hebrew religion which was carried with them in their travels and later placed in the Holy of Holies in the Temple, also takes on the nature of a fetish when we read of its being carried into battle and bringing good luck to the Hebrews and bad luck to the Philistines who seized it.

The language Paul uses evokes the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant - the Holy of Holies.

Israel was disastrously defeated and the ark of the covenant was captured (1 Samuel 4).

Even taking the ark of the covenant into the field did not guarantee the LORD's presence.

Yet, shortly there after he commands them to construct the ark, which contained two images of angels on the ark of the covenant.

The use of an interior castle by Teresa of Avila, Noah's ark by Hugh of St. Victor, or the ark of the covenant by Richard of St. Victor underscore the way in which symbols identify and organize the movements of the soul.

Catholics and other Christians too can look to Mary, just as her child Jesus did, and see in her purity and chastity a verification of the ideals of the Jewish tradition of «tower of David, tower of ivory, house of gold, ark of the covenant.»

In the priestly - cultic institution the holiest symbol is the mercy - seat, a solid - gold rectangular plate, conforming to the top dimensions of the ark of the covenant (2-1/2 x 1-1/2 cubits: a cubit was 18 inches?)

Finding swiss chard in a supermarket is like a quest for the ark of the covenant.

Apparently people have been searching the tiny island in Nova Scotia for centuries in hopes of unearthing either buried treasure or the ark of the covenant.

For example, my thriller novel Exodus is associated with the keyword «ark of the covenant» and my non-fiction book with «career change».

For Exodus, I might consider keywords: thriller, action adventure, exodus, ark of the covenant, israel, freemasons — as those are the themes of the book and people searching for those things will be interested in it.

Reminds me of the statue of Dagon that couldn't stand in the presence of the ark of the covenant!!

It made me think about a Bible story of an idol who falls over in the presence of the ark of the covenant.