WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ITEMS IN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT?

Originally Posted by The Anointed

As for the two golden cherubs, which are depicted as winged bulls on the lid of the covenant box, they remain on the box, which remains in the cave where Jeremiah hid them.

It amazes me that no one from the Jewish faith, have questioned my description of the winged cherubs on the lid of the Covenant box.

In what image do the Jews depict the winged creatures in the Holy of Holies, beneath whose outstretched wings, stood the Covenant box, with the two smaller cherubs on it's lid?

Does anyone from the Jewish faith actually know, where the description of the cherubs, which are of the chariot of God, is to be found in their bible?

1 Chronicles 28: 18; Hebrew bible.

יח וּלְמִזְבַּח הַקְּטֹרֶת זָהָב מְזֻקָּק, בַּמִּשְׁקָל; וּלְתַבְנִית הַמֶּרְכָּבָה, הַכְּרוּבִים זָהָב לְפֹרְשִׂים, וְסֹכְכִים, עַל-אֲרוֹן בְּרִית-יְהוָה. 18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, even the cherubim, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

Moses, King David, his son Solomon, and the high priests who were allowed into the Holy of Holies knew in what form the cherubim were depicted, as did the Philistines who captured the ark of the Covenant. See 1 Samuel 4: 1-11.

The identification of cherubim as winged humans, whether adults or children, is found in early Jewish and Christian visual art. One example is found in an illuminated Hebrew manuscript from northern France, dated to 1277–1286, and shows the tabernacle ark cherubim as childlike creatures with six wings each.

The Talmud offers several interpretations of the symbolism of the cherubs. One suggestion (b. Chagigah 13; b. Sukkah 5b) connects the face of the cherub with that of a child, although Jewish tradition has interpreted the Cherubs to represent anything from a bird, to a child, to a man, woman to an angel, but none agree with the description given in their own bible.