29 Bible Verses about Most Holy Place

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Exodus 26:33

Hang up the veil under the clasps. Bring in the Ark of the Covenant there within the veil. The veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies.

1 Kings 6:16

An inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was built in the rear of the Temple. It was thirty feet long and was partitioned off by cedar boards reaching from the floor to the ceiling.

Exodus 26:31-33

Build a canopy of violet, purple, and bright red yarn. Creatively work an angel design of cherubim into fine linen yarn. Hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold, on four sockets of silver. Hang up the veil under the clasps. Bring in the Ark of the Covenant there within the veil. The veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies.

Exodus 36:35-36

They made the canopy out of violet, purple, and bright red yarn and fine linen yarn. A cherubim (angel) design was creatively worked into the fabric. Four posts of acacia wood were prepared for it. They covered them with gold. They made gold hooks for the posts. They cast four silver bases for them.

Exodus 40:21

Then he brought the ark into the tent and hung the canopy over it to mark off where the ark was. Moses followed Jehovah's instructions.

2 Chronicles 3:8

He made the most holy place. It was as long as the Temple was wide, thirty feet long. It was also thirty feet wide. He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds of fine gold.

1 Kings 6:23-28

Two cherubim made of olive wood were placed in the Most Holy Place. Each one was fifteen feet tall. Each had two wings, each wing was seven and one half feet long. The distance from one wing tip to the other was fifteen feet. The other cherub was fifteen feet tall.read more.
Both were the same size and shape. They were placed side by side in the Most Holy Place. Their outstretched wings touched each other in the middle of the room, and the other two wings touched the walls. The two cherubim were covered with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:10

In the most holy place he made two sculptured cherubim (angels) and covered them with gold.

1 Kings 6:31-32

A double door made of olive wood was hung at the entrance of the Most Holy Place. There was a pointed arch on top of the doorway. The doors were decorated with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and flowers. The doors, the cherubim, and the palm trees were covered with gold.

2 Chronicles 3:14

Solomon made the canopy of violet, purple, and dark red cloth and of linen and decorated it with cherubim.

Ezekiel 41:4

He measured the room at the end of the holy place. It was thirty-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide. The man said: This is the Most Holy Place (Holy of Holies).

Ezekiel 45:3

Measure off an area forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty feet long and seventeen thousand five hundred feet wide. The Holy Place, that is, the Most Holy Place, will be in this area.

Exodus 40:3

Place the Ark containing the words of my covenant inside it, and hang the canopy over the ark.

1 Kings 6:19

An inner room was built in the rear of the Temple. The Ark of the Covenant was to be placed there.

1 Kings 8:6-9

Then the priests carried the Ark of the Covenant into the Temple and put it in the Most Holy Place, beneath the cherubim (angel). Their outstretched wings covered the box and the poles it was carried by. The ends of the poles could be seen by anyone standing directly in front of the Most Holy Place, but from nowhere else.read more.
There was nothing inside the Ark of the Covenant except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed there at Mount Sinai, when Jehovah made a covenant with the people of Israel as they were coming from Egypt.

2 Chronicles 5:7-9

The priests brought Jehovah's Ark of the Covenant to its place in the inner room of the Temple, the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim (angels). The cherubim (angels) outstretched wings were over the place where the Ark rested so that the cherubim became a covering above the Ark and its poles. The poles were so long that their ends could be seen in the holy place by anyone standing in front of the inner room. However they could not be seen outside. They are still there today.

1 Kings 6:22

The whole interior of the Temple was covered with gold, as well as the altar in the Most Holy Place.

Hebrews 9:3-4

Beyond the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place. It had a golden incense burner. The Ark of the Covenant was completely covered with gold. It contained the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant.

Exodus 30:6

Place the altar in front of the canopy that hangs over the ark containing the words of my covenant I will meet with you there in front of the throne of mercy that is on the ark.

Psalm 28:2

Hear the voice of my prayer when I call to you for help, when I lift my hands [in prayer] toward your most holy place.

Leviticus 16:2

Jehovah said: Tell your brother Aaron that he cannot go into the holy place whenever he wants to. If he goes up to the canopy and stands in front of the throne of mercy on the Ark, he will die. This is because I appear in the smoke above the throne of mercy.

Leviticus 16:16-17

He will pay compensation for the wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for all the sins the Israelites committed against the holy place. These sins happened because the Israelites were unclean and because they committed rebellious acts. He will do the same for the Tent of Meeting that is among an unclean people. No one may be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron enters the holy place to do this until he comes out. Aaron will pay compensation for wrongdoing and peace with Jehovah for his own sins, his family's sins, and the sins of the entire assembly of Israel.

Hebrews 6:19-20

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of life. It is a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain. That is where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 9:11-12

Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here. He also went into a much better tent that is not made by humans and does not belong to this creation. He went once and forever into the Most Holy Place having eternal salvation. It is not with the blood of goats and young bulls, but with his blood.

Hebrews 10:19-22

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, having a high priest over the house of God,read more.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Matthew 27:51

The veil (curtain) of the temple was ripped in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks split.

Luke 23:45

The sun failed to shine. The veil of the temple was torn in two.

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Exodus 26:31-33

Build a canopy of violet, purple, and bright red yarn. Creatively work an angel design of cherubim into fine linen yarn. Hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold, on four sockets of silver. Hang up the veil under the clasps. Bring in the Ark of the Covenant there within the veil. The veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies.

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