The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, was a religious storage chest and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites.
Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark (c. 1900) by James Tissot
Ark of the chapelle de l'Adoration (Église Saint-Roch, Paris).
The Philistine captivity of the Ark depicted in the Dura-Europos synagogue
Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant by Benjamin West, 1800
The Philistine captivity of the Ark was an episode described in the biblical history of the Israelites, in which the Ark of the Covenant was in the possession of the Philistines, who had captured it a
Nicolas Poussin, The Plague of Ashdod.