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Fifty years
later, around 1000 B.C., King David brought the Ark to Jerusalem, where
its presence helped reinforce the city as the political and religious center
of the nation and helped unify the tribes of Israel. David's son, Solomon,
built the First Temple, which was completed in 957 B.C., to house the Ark.
It was placed within the Holy of Holies, the temple's innermost sanctuary,
which could only be entered by the high priest on Yom Kippur, the Day of
Atonement.
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King David kneels before before the Ark. His son
Solomon, would build the First Temple.
The Bible mentions the Ark for the last time in Jeremiah 3:16, when it is
noted that "when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,
saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The Ark of the covenant of the Lord
neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall
they visit it; neither shall that be done any more." In 586 B.C. the Babylonian
emperor Nebuchadrezzar II sacked and destroyed the First Temple, as a prelude
to enslaving the Hebrews. But in the detailed biblical list of all the war-booty
that the Babylonians took back with them to their homeland, the Ark is not
mentioned, which suggests to some that by then it had already disappeared.
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