Bible Verses about the Holy of Holies
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on 05/21/2026
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Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.
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He partitioned off 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.
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The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
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The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
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He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
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Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
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So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
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For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
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The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
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The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
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He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
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He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
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He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.
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For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary.
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the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;
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the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
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The priests then brought the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
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The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its carrying poles.
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These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
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He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
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The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
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For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
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The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.
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Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.
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The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.
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He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.
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the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
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the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);
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the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.
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The priests then brought the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
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The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.
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These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
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“Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker.
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Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
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Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
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Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place.
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Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.
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Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.
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He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it.
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Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the LORD commanded him.
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And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
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The main hall had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar.
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We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
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Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
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which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
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Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
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When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry.
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But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
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The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning.
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This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.
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They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
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But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation.
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He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
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The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.
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How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
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For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
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In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it,
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because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.
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This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
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When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.
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He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
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In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.
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In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
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It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
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by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
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The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.
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He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.
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He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.
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He is to take some of the bull’s blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.
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“He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.
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In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
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No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.
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“Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.
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He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.
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“When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.
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He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.
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The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.
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“Then Aaron is to go into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.
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He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.
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He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
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“The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.
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The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up.
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for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
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The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
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At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split
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“This is the work of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting: the care of the most holy things.
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When the camp is to move, Aaron and his sons are to go in and take down the shielding curtain and put it over the ark of the covenant law.
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“After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, only then are the Kohathites to come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the tent of meeting.
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Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.