Most Holy Place

One of the two portions into which the tabernacle was divided (Ex. 26:31; 37:17-25; Heb. 9:2). It was 20 cubits long and 10 in height and breadth. It was illuminated by the golden candlestick, as it had no opening to admit the light. It contained the table of showbread (Ex. 25:23-29) and the golden altar of incense (30:1-11). It was divided from the holy of holies by a veil of the most costly materials and the brightest colours.

The arrangement of the temple (q.v.) was the same in this respect. In it the walls of hewn stone were wainscotted with cedar and overlaid with gold, and adorned with beautiful carvings. It was entered from the porch by folding doors overlaid with gold and richly embossed. Outside the holy place stood the great tank or “sea” of molten brass, supported by twelve oxen, three turned each way, capable of containing two thousand baths of water. Besides this there were ten lavers and the brazen altar of burnt sacrifice.

Recorded scripture occurrences (12)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

Show passage in OET: KI1 6:16

OET-RV KI1 6:16

16 ⇔Inside the temple, nine metres at the rear were closed off to make an inner room called ‘the very holy place’. That too had walls made of cedar boards.

OET-LV KI1 6:16

16 And_he/it _built DOM twenty cubit[s] mmm of_the _house with_boards _of cedar(s) from the_floor to the_walls and_he/it _built to_him/it inside to_an _innermost _room to_the _holy _place _of the _holy _places.

Show passage in OET: KI1 7:50

OET-RV KI1 7:50

50 the pure gold cups, trimmers, bowls, dishes, and firepans, and also the gold door sockets for the inner holiest room and the main room of the temple.

OET-LV KI1 7:50

50 And_the_basins and_the_snuffers and_the_bowls and_the_pans and_the_fire-pans gold pure _gold and_the_sockets for_the _doors _of the _house (the)_inner to_the _holy _place _of the _holy _places for_the _doors _of the _house of_temple gold.

Show passage in OET: KI1 8:6

OET-RV KI1 8:6

6 Then the priests brought the box containing the agreement into the inner room in the temple (the very holy place), and placed it beneath the wings of the two wooden winged creatures,

OET-LV KI1 8:6

6 And_ the_priests _they _brought DOM the _box _of the _covenant _of YHWH to place _of_its to the _innermost _room _of the _house to the _holy _place _of the _holy _places to under the _wings _of the _cherubim.

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