Holy Place
Where it is
31.78° N, 35.23° E · Located through Jerusalem
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Counted from 35 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
About this place
The Holy Place refers to the inner sanctuary of the Tabernacle and later the Temple, where the priests performed their duties. It was separated from the outer court by a veil (Exodus 26:33). The Holy Place contained the lampstand, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense (Exodus 31:8; 35:19; 39:1). Only consecrated priests could enter the Holy Place (Exodus 28:29,43; 29:30). Rituals performed there included burning incense and presenting offerings (Leviticus 6:30; Numbers 28:7). The Holy Place represented God's presence among His people, though access was restricted. In the New Testament, Christ's sacrifice opened the way for believers to enter God's presence (Hebrews 9:12; 10:19).
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Every mention
35 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Exodus9 mentions
Exodus 26:33You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.Exodus 28:29Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.Exodus 28:35It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.Exodus 28:43They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die.…Exodus 29:30Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.Exodus 31:11the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”Exodus 35:19the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons—to minister in the priest’s office.’”Exodus 39:1Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses.Exodus 39:41the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
Leviticus6 mentions
Leviticus 6:30No sin offering, of which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned with fire.Leviticus 16:16He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent…Leviticus 16:17No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the…Leviticus 16:20“When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.Leviticus 16:23“Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.Leviticus 16:27The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp; and they shall burn…
1 Kings2 mentions
2 Chronicles4 mentions
2 Chronicles 5:11When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;2 Chronicles 29:5and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.2 Chronicles 29:7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.2 Chronicles 35:5Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.
Ezekiel4 mentions
Ezekiel 41:21The door posts of the nave were squared. As for the face of the nave, its appearance was as the appearance of the temple.Ezekiel 41:23The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.Ezekiel 42:14When the priests enter in, then they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court until they lay their garments in which they minister there; for they are holy. Then they shall…Ezekiel 44:27In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Hebrews9 mentions
Hebrews 8:2a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man.Hebrews 9:1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.Hebrews 9:2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the Holy Place.Hebrews 9:8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.Hebrews 9:12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.Hebrews 9:24For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;Hebrews 9:25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,Hebrews 10:19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,Hebrews 13:11For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.
What the dictionary says
One of the two portions into which the tabernacle was divided (Ex. 26:31; 37:17-25; Heb. 9:2).
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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