Talmud zu Schemuel I 4:8

“ ‘To save you’, that is the camp of the Ark.” But some say, that is the Name which was given in the Ark⁴²Similarly, the Babli (Soṭah42b/43a, Baba batra 14b) notes that “The Name and all its replacements are deposited in the Ark” (in one of Rashi’s versions, “standing in the Ark”). In the Tosephta (7:17): “For the Eternal, your God, is He Who goes with you, “that is the Name deposited in the Ark”. Midrash Num. rabba 4(20) refers to 1Chr. 13:6 which calls the ark Name: “God’s ark, the Eternal, Who resides above the Cherubim, which is called Name.”, as it was stated⁴³From here to the end of the Halakhah the text is in Šeqalim 7:1, (49c, line 26 ff.)’⁴⁴Tosephta 7:18; Baraita Melekhet Hamishkan 6.: “Rebbi Jehudah ben Laqish says, two arks were travelling with Israel in the desert; one in which the Torah was deposited and one in which the broken pieces of the tablets were deposited⁴⁵The ark mentioned in Deut. 10:1.. The one in which the Torah was deposited was put into the Tent of Meeting; that is what is written⁴⁶Num. 14:44; the exact description of the ark implies that another ark went out with the people.: “Moses and the Ark of the Eternal’s covenant did not move from the camp.” The one in which the broken pieces of the tablets were deposited was going out and coming in with them. But the Rabbis say, it was only one⁴⁷Babli Berakhot 8b, Baba batra14b, Menaḥot 99a., and once it went out in the days of Eli and was taken prisoner. A verse supports the Rabbis: ⁴⁸1Sam. 4:8.“Woe to us, who will save us from this mighty god?” A word [which shows that] they never had seen it before. A verse supports Rebbi Jehudah ben Laqish. “Saul said to Aḥiya: present God’s Ark⁴⁹1Sam. 14:18.”. But was the Ark not at Qiryat Ye‘arim⁵⁰1Sam. 7:1–2.? What do the rabbis with it? ‘Present to me the High Priest’s diadem.’ Another verse supports Rebbi Jehudah ben Laqish: “The Ark, Israel, and Jehudah, dwell in huts.⁵¹2Sam. 11:11.”. Was the Ark not in Zion? What do the rabbis with it? The straw roof cover⁵²The legal definition of a “hut” to be used on Tabernacles is any dwelling place whose roof is made from vegetable matter immune to impurity, called סְכָךְ. The construction of the walls is immaterial. that was in the walls⁴¹In the Genizah fragment: כַקִּירוּי “acted as roof”. This is the better reading., since the Temple was not yet built.