⁴⁴ “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law^(B) with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.^{(C) 45} After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them.^(D) It remained in the land until the time of David,^(E)