[Mrs. Don-o]

You and I probably have a different definition of "venerate." It does not mean "adore." It means "treat with reverence."

Making a gold-covered chest with a golden lid, which is covered with 2 golden cherubim, is in itself an act of veneration. Veiling it from sight and forbidding people to touch it, is also an act of veneration.<

The Jews would not only bow down, but prostrate themselves before the Ark of the Covenant when they were praying to and adoring God.<

Joshua 7:6-7
Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.

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Yet by the time of Solomon the only thing left in the ark was the tablets and not long after the ark itself was gone. Guess they weren’t treated with that much reverence.