There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Ark. See 3 Kings viii. 9. (Haydock)
The other things which had been placed in, or at least on the side of the ark, were now removed to the treasury rooms. (Tirinus)