KJV Exodus 25:10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood:
two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit
and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height
thereof.
KJV Exodus 25:11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within
and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of
gold round about.
KJV Exodus 25:13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood,
and overlay them with gold.
The similarities are startling and unique to the period if Ramesses
III were indeed Shishak. One must ask why carrying poles which would
slip and slide within the rings which enabled them to carry the
"ark" = "shrine" would be covered in Gold. Surely
it would quickly wear off the wood. Yet this unlikely construction is
found both in the Biblical account of the manufacture of the Ark and
in the Harris Papyrus, an Egyptian account of the years of Ramesses
III.
In both cases the Ark=Shrine contained just one object. A plaque
dedicated to the god of the Egyptian, and in the Biblical account, a
broken plaque, the actual gift of GOD.
In the Cairo Museum are actual Egyptian plaques, some in Gold
(Tutankhamun's shrine) some in other stones and in one museum case
there is an actual foundation deposit plaque broken as we would
envisage the "Ten Commandments" to be.
