68 Bible Verses about Sanctuary

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Exodus 25:8-9

And make ye to me a holy place; and I will abide in the midst of you. According to all which I having shewn to thee, the pattern of the tent and the pattern of all its vessels; and thus shall ye do.

Exodus 36:1

And Bezaleel made, and Aholiab, and every man wise of heart, to whom Jehovah gave wisdom and unstanding in them to know to do all the work of service of the holy place according to all which Jehovah commanded.

Hebrews 8:2

A workman of holy things, and of the true tent, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Exodus 30:7-10

And Aaron to burn upon it incense of spices in the morning: in the morning in his adorning the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it And in Aaron's causing the lamps, to ascend between the two evenings, he shall burn incense upon it; continually before Jehovah for your generations. And ye shall not bring up upon it strange incense; and a burnt-offering, a sacrifice and a libation thou shalt not pour out upon it.read more.
And Aaron to expiate upon its horns once in a year, from the blood of the sin of the expiation: once in a year he shall expiate upon it for your generations: it is holy of holies to Jehovah.

Leviticus 7:37-38

This the law of the burnt-offering, for the gift, and for the sin, and for the trespass, and for the fulness, and for the sacrifice of the peace; Which Jehovah commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day of his commanding the sons of Israel to bring near their offerings to Jehovah, in the desert of Sinai.

Leviticus 23:44

And Moses will speak the appointments of Jehovah to the sons of Israel.

Exodus 39:1

And from the cerulean purple, and the red purple, and the double scarlet, they made garments of stuff to serve in the holy place; and they will make the garments of the holy place which are for Aaron, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Numbers 3:30-31

And the chief of the house of the father to the families of the Kohathites, Elizaphan, son of Uzziel. And their watches, the ark, and the table, and the chandelier, and the altar, and the vessels of the holy place which they shall serve in them, and the covering and all its works.

Hebrews 9:1

And truly therefore the first had precepts of divine service for him, and a worldly holy place.

Exodus 36:4-5

And all the wise will come, doing the work of the holy place; a man a man from his work which they were doing. And they will say to Moses, saying, The people are multiplying to bring more than enough to the service for the work which Jehovah commanded to do it

Leviticus 12:4

And thirty days and three days, she shall sit down in the blood of purification: she shall not touch upon any holy thing, and into the holy place she shall not come till the completing of the days of her purification.

Leviticus 21:21-23

Any man to whom in him a blemish from the seed of Aaron the priest, shall not come near to bring the sacrifices of Jehovah: a blemish is in him, the bread of his God he shall not come near to bring. The bread of his God the holy of holies, and from the holies shall he eat. But he shall not come in to the vail, and to the altar he shall not come near, for a blemish is in him; and he shall not profane my holy place: for I Jehovah consecrating them.

Numbers 8:19

And I will give the Levites, being given to Aaron and to his sons, from the midst of the sons of Israel, to work the works of the sons of Israel in the tent of appointment, and to expiate for the sons of Israel: and there shall not be a blow among the sons of Israel, in the sons of Israel coming to the holy place.

Numbers 18:5

And ye watched the watches of the holy place, and the watches of the altar; and anger shall no more be upon the sons of Israel.

Numbers 19:20

And a man who shall be unclean and shall not be purified, and that soul was cut off from the midst of the gathering, for he defiled the holy place of Jehovah: the water of uncleanness was not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

2 Chronicles 26:18

And they will stand against Uzziah the king, and say to him, Not to thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, being consecrated to burn incense: go forth from the holy place, for thou didst trespass; and not to thee for honor from Jehovah God.

1 Chronicles 22:17-19

And David will command to all the chiefs of Israel for help to Solomon his son: Is not Jehovah your God with you? and he caused rest to you from round about? for he gave into my hand the inhabitants of the land; and the land was subdued before Jehovah, and before his people. Now ye shall give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God; and arise ye and build the holy place of Jehovah God to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and the holy vessels of God, to the house being built to the name of Jehovah.

1 Chronicles 28:2-3

And David the king will rise upon his feet and say, Hear me, my brethren and my people: I with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of the feet of our God; and I prepared for the building. And God said to me, Thou shalt not build a house to my name, for thou a man of war, and thou didst pour out bloods.

1 Kings 6:19

And the oracle in the midst of the house from within he prepared to give there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

1 Kings 8:6

And the priests will bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place to the oracle of the house to the holy of holies, to beneath the wings of the cherubims.

2 Chronicles 5:7

And the priests will bring in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place to the oracle of the house, to the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

1 Chronicles 6:49

And Aaron and his sons burning incense upon the altar of the burnt-offering, and upon the altar of incense for all the work of the holy of holies, and to expiate for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God commanded.

Hebrews 9:1-4

And truly therefore the first had precepts of divine service for him, and a worldly holy place. For the first tent was prepared; (in which was the chandelier, and table, and the setting up of the loaves;) which is called holy. And after the second veil, the tent called Holy of Holies;read more.
Having the golden censer, and ark of the covenant surrounded on all sides with gold, in which was the golden urn having the manna, and Aaron's rod having budded, and the tables of the covenant;

Exodus 15:17

Thou shalt bring them in and shalt plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, into the place of thy Sabbath, thou didst make, O Jehovah: a holy place, O Jehovah, which thy hands prepared.

Genesis 28:16-17

And Jacob will awake from his sleep, and he will say, surely there is Jehovah in this place and I knew not And he will be afraid, and will Say, How terrible this place is not this but the house of God, and this the gate of the heavens?

Exodus 3:1-5

And Moses was feeding the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he will lead the sheep behind the desert, and he will come to the mountain of God, to Horeb. And the messenger of Jehovah will be seen to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bramble; and he will see, and behold, the bramble burning in fire, and the bramble was not consumed. And Moses will say, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bramble will not burn.read more.
And Jehovah will see that he turned aside to see, and God will call to him from the midst of the bramble, and he will say, Moses, Moses! And he will say, Behold me. And he will say, Thou shalt not draw near hither; draw off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place which thou standest upon it, this is holy land.

Psalm 15:1

Chanting of David. O Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in thy holy mountain?

Psalm 63:2

Thus in the holy place I saw thee, to see thy strength and thy glory.

Psalm 73:16-17

And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes. Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state.

Jeremiah 17:12

A throne of glory being lifted up from the first our holy place.

Leviticus 26:31

And I gave your cities a desert, and I laid waste your holy places, and I will not smell upon the odor of your sweetness.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now ye shall not harden your neck as your fathers; ye shall give the hand to Jehovah, and come ye into his holy place which he consecrated forever: and serve ye Jehovah your God, and he will turn back from you the burning of his anger.

Ezekiel 7:24

And I brought the evil ones of the nations, and they inherited their houses: and I caused the pride of the strong ones to cease, and their holy places were profaned.

Lamentations 2:7

Jehovah rejected his altar, he abhorred his holy place, he shut up in the hand of the enemy the walls of her castles; they gave a voice in the house of Jehovah, as the day of the appointment

Amos 7:9

And the heights of Isaak were made desolate, and the holy places of Israel shall be laid waste; and I rose up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

Malachi 2:11

Judah dealt faithlessly, and an abomination was done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah profaned the holy place of Jehovah which he loved, and married the daughter of a strange god.

Ezekiel 28:18

From the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic, thou didst profane my holy places; and I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall consume thee, and I will give thee for ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all seeing thee.

Leviticus 20:3

And I will give my face against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people; for he gave from his seed to Molech, in order to defile my holy place and to profane my holy name.

Ezekiel 8:6

And he said to me, Son of man, west thou what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are doing here, to go far off from my holy place? And thou shalt yet turn back, thou shalt see great abominations.

Ezekiel 23:38-39

Yet this they did to me: they defiled my holy place in that day, and my Sabbaths they profaned. And in their slaughtering their sons to their blocks, and they will come to my holy place in that day to profane it; and behold, thus they did in the midst of my house.

Ezekiel 44:7-8

In your bringing in the sons of the stranger, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in my holy place to profane it, my house, in your bringing near my bread, the fat and the blood, and they will break my covenant by all your abominations. And ye watched not the watches of my holy place: and ye set for watching of my watches in my holy place for yourselves.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets vain-glorious men of treacheries: her priests defiled the holy place, they violated the law.

Joshua 20:2-3

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Ye shall give to yourselves cities of refuge which I spake to you by the hand of Moses: For the slayer smiting a soul in mistake and without knowledge, to flee there: and they shall be to you for refuge from the nearest kinsman of blood.

Numbers 35:6

And the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, six cities of refuge, which ye shall give to flee there to the slayer: and upon them ye shall give forty and two

Psalm 31:20

Thou wilt cover them in the covering of thy face from the snares of man: thou wilt conceal them in the booth from the strife of tongues.

Psalm 17:7-9

Make thy kindnesses distinguished, thou saving those putting their trust, from those rising up against thy right hand. Watch me as the pupil of the daughter of the eye: thou wilt hide me in the shadow of thy wings. From the face of the unjust that laid me waste, enemies against the soul will go round about against me.

Psalm 64:1-2

To the overseer; chanting to David. Hear, O God, my voice in my complaint: thou wilt guard my life from the fear of the enemy. Thou wilt cover me from the consultation of evil ones; from the crowd of the workers of vanity:

Isaiah 25:4

For thou wert a fortress to the poor, a fortress to the needy in straits; to him a refuge from the inundation, a shadow from the heat when the wind of the terrible ones as the inundation of the wall.

Ezekiel 11:16

For this, say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: If I put them far off among the nations, and if I scattered them in the lands, and I will be to them for a little holy place in the lands where they went there.

Romans 8:38-39

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor beginnings, nor powers, nor things having stood, nor things about to be, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 102:19

For be looked forth from the height of his holy place; from the heavens Jehovah looked upon the earth;

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us:

Psalm 114:2

Judah was for his holy place, Israel his dominion.

Ephesians 2:21

In whom all the building fitted together increases into a holy temple in the Lord:

John 2:19-21

Jesus answered and said to them, Loose this temple, and in three days will I raise it up. Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? But he spake concerning the temple of his body.

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Holy of holies » Was called the » Sanctuary

Leviticus 4:6

And the priest dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkled from the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the vail of the holy place.

Psalm 20:2

He will send thy help from the holy place and from Zion he will support thee.

Jesus Christ » Names of » Sanctuary

Isaiah 8:14

And he was for a holy place and for a stone of striking, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Sanctuary » In the charge of high priest

Exodus 27:21

In the tent of appointment from without the vail, which is over the testimony, Aaron shall arrange it, and his sons, from evening to morning, before Jehovah: a law forever for their generations for the sons of Israel.

Leviticus 24:3

From without the vail of the testimony, in the tent of appointment, shall Aaron arrange it from evening to morning, before Jehovah always: a law forever to your generations.

Numbers 18:5

And ye watched the watches of the holy place, and the watches of the altar; and anger shall no more be upon the sons of Israel.

Sanctuary » The holy place in the temple

Lamentations 2:20

See, O Jehovah, and look to whom thou didst accomplish this Shall the women eat their fruit, the children borne upon the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the holy place of Jehovah?

Lamentations 2:7

Jehovah rejected his altar, he abhorred his holy place, he shut up in the hand of the enemy the walls of her castles; they gave a voice in the house of Jehovah, as the day of the appointment

Ezekiel 42:20

To the four winds he measured it: the wall to it round about, round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to separate between the holy to the profane.

Sanctuary » Reverence for

Sanctuary » Figurative

Ezekiel 11:16

For this, say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: If I put them far off among the nations, and if I scattered them in the lands, and I will be to them for a little holy place in the lands where they went there.

Sanctuary » Symbolical

Hebrews 8:2

A workman of holy things, and of the true tent, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Hebrews 8:5

Who serve the pattern and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was given an intimation of the divine will, being about to complete the tent: for, See, says he, thou make all things according to the type shewed thee in the mount.

Sanctuary » Divine dwelling place

Sanctuary » In the tabernacle

Hebrews 9:2

For the first tent was prepared; (in which was the chandelier, and table, and the setting up of the loaves;) which is called holy.

Stool » Footstool » Sanctuary

Psalm 132:7

We will come in to his dwellings: we will worship at the footstool of his feet

Symbols and similitudes » Sanctuary

Psalm 20:2

He will send thy help from the holy place and from Zion he will support thee.

Tabernacle » The one instituted by moses was called » Sanctuary

Temple » Solomon's » Sanctuary

2 Chronicles 20:8

And they will dwell in it, and build to thee in it a holy place to thy name, saying,

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