Deuteronomy 10:5

5 I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made. They are still there, where the LORD commanded me to put them.

Deuteronomy 10:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 10:5

And I turned myself
From the Lord, out of whose hands he had received the tables:

and came down from the mount;
with the two tables in his hand as before, one in one hand, and the other in the other hand:

and put the tables in the ark which I had made;
or ordered to be made:

and there they be, as the Lord commanded me;
there they were when Moses rehearsed what is contained in this book, on the plains of Moab, about thirty eight years after the putting them, into it; and there they continued to be when the ark was brought into Solomon's temple, ( 1 Kings 8:9 ) and there they were as long as the ark was in being; which may denote the continuance of the law in the hands of Christ under the Gospel dispensation as a rule of walk and conversation to his people.

Deuteronomy 10:5 In-Context

3 I made an ark out of acacia wood. I cut two [more] stone tablets like the first ones. I carried the two tablets up the mountain.

4 The LORD wrote on these tablets the same words as before, the ten commandments. He had spoken these words to you from the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. Then the LORD gave them to me.

5 I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made. They are still there, where the LORD commanded me to put them.

6 The Israelites moved from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. Aaron died there and was buried, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest.

7 They moved from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with rivers that don't dry up.