The Most Holy Place was the innermost room of the tabernacle and temple, where the Ark of the Covenant was kept.
Also known as most holy house · holiest
The Most Holy Place, also known as the Holy of Holies, was the innermost room of the tabernacle and later the temple in Jerusalem. It was separated from the Holy Place by a veil (Exod. 26:31-33). The Ark of the Covenant, which contained the tablets of the Ten Commandments, was kept in the Most Holy Place (Exod. 25:10-22; 1Kgs. 8:6). The high priest entered the Most Holy Place only once a year, on the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for the sins of the people (Lev. 16). The Most Holy Place was a perfect cube, measuring 20 cubits in length, width, and height (1Kgs. 6:20; 2Chr. 3:8). It was overlaid with pure gold and contained gold cherubim (1Kgs. 6:28; 2Chr. 3:10-13). The Most Holy Place represented the dwelling place of God among His people.
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11 verses in 5 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H6944
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.
Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
From this holy portion, you are to measure off a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
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