Notes on Third Book of Kings (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
8:9 Nothing else, etc: There was nothing else but the tables of the law within the ark: but on the outside of the ark, or near the ark were also the rod of Aaron, and a golden urn with manna, Heb. 9.4.
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