What Really Happened to the Lost Ark of the Covenant? – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

The most famous lost object in history — the Ark of the Covenant — vanished from Scripture before 586 BC and was never seen again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine what it was, trace its history, and weigh nine theories for where it went.

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Links for this episode:

David Falk, The Ark of the Covenant in Its Egyptian Context
Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
Tudor Parfitt, The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500-Year-Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark
Randall Price, Searching for the Ark of the Covenant
Paul Raffaele, “Keepers of the Lost Ark?” Smithsonian, December 2007
Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (Whiston translation)
Mishnah, Yoma 5:2/21b, 53b–54a (Sefaria)
E. A. Wallis Budge, trans., The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (Kebra Nagast)

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Chapters:

0:00 – MYS422
0:11 – Intro
1:43 – What Is the Ark of the Covenant?
8:50 – Physical Construction
13:43 – Contents of the Ark
18:08 – History: Conquest and Judges
21:26 – David and Uzzah
23:50 – Solomon’s Temple
24:50 – Silence
27:09 – The Babylonian Destruction
32:36 – Ancient traditions about its fate
36:06 – The Ark in the New Testament
37:30 – Thank you to Patrons
37:59 – Sponsor: Transformed – The Legend of Rising Eagle
38:41 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
39:03 – Theories
40:45 – Reason Perspective: Alien/ET removal?
43:29 – Knights Templar?
46:26 – Translated to heaven?
58:59 – Samaritans?
1:00:41 – Jeremiah hid it?
1:06:18 – Under the Temple Mount?
1:09:27 – Aksum in Ethiopia?
1:21:12 – Pharoah Shishak?
1:24:08 – Destroyed by Babylon?
1:33:26 – Faith Perspective
1:36:44 – Bottom Line
1:37:56 – Top. Men.
1:38:47 – Further Resources
1:40:01 – Mysterious Feedback: #411 George Adamski, Alien Contactee
1:42:51 – Your mysterious feedback
1:43:26 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
1:43:31 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
1:44:17 – Next Time: Mel’s Hole
1:44:39 – Share the show
1:44:51 – Get your Mysterious merch
1:44:58 – Show notes
1:45:06 – Become a Patron
1:45:13 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
1:45:33 – Outro

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