The Ark of the Covenant with the Ten Commandments... Focus of worship in the early Judaic religion, embodiment of God Himself.. Its disappearance without a trace is the greatest riddle of the Bible. What happened to it.. Does it still exist..?
The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony, and in a few verses across various translations as the Ark of God, is a gold-covered wooden chest with lid cover described in the Book of Exodus as containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. According to various texts within the Hebrew Bible, it also contained Aaron's rod and a pot of manna. Hebrews 9:4 describes: "The ark of the covenant [was] covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron's rod which budded, and the tablets of the covenant."