Sanctuary

(The Holy of Holies)

In the tabernacle

• Hebrews 9:2

  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

Divine dwelling place

• Exodus 25:8

  And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Reverence for

• Leviticus 19:30

  Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

• Leviticus 26:2

  Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

In the charge of high priest

• Exodus 27:21

  In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

• Leviticus 24:3

  Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

• Numbers 18:5

  And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

The Holy Place in the temple

• Lamentations 2:7

  The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

• Lamentations 2:20

  Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Ezekiel 42:20

  He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

Figurative

• Ezekiel 11:16

  Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

Symbolical

• Hebrews 8:2

  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

• Hebrews 8:5

  Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.