Ark Of The Covenant, Ark Of The Covenant

One of the most important Islamic shrines, the Dome of the Rock, sits in the location where the First Temple of Solomon once stood. King Solomon, when building the temple, is rumored to have put the Ark of the Covenant on a platform which could be lowered down into a tunnel system if the Temple were ever overrun. In 586 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar's troops destroyed the temple and carried off the temple treasures, but no mention of the Ark of the Covenant is made, leading to speculation that it had been lowered into the cave system below and secreted away by Levite priests.

Nebo on the Jordan River's east bank. Second Maccabees, chapter 2, verses 1-8, mentions how the prophet Jeremiah "following a divine revelation, ordered that the tent the tabernacle of meeting and the ark the ark of the covenant should accompany him and how he went off to the mountain which Moses climbed to see God's inheritance Mt. Nebo; see Deuteronomy 31:1-4 . When Jeremiah arrived there, he found a room in a cave in which he put the tent, the ark, and the altar of incense; then he blocked up the entrance." (vv. 4-5) There is some debate as to whether or not this second-hand account (see v. 1) is trustworthy.

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