Holy Place (1 Kings 6)

Holy Place (1 Kings 6) is a room named in 23 verses of the Bible. It is most likely on Mount Moriah (high confidence).

Location

Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.

Verses

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 6:5
  And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
• 1 Kings 8:8
  And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
• 1 Kings 8:10
  And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 24:5
  Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.Thus they were divided by lot, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both Eleazar’s and Ithamar’s descendants.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 5:9
  And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
• 2 Chronicles 5:11
  And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,
• 2 Chronicles 29:5
  And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
• 2 Chronicles 29:7
  Also 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 unto the God of Israel.They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.
• 2 Chronicles 35:5
  And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.Moreover, stand in the Holy Place by the divisions of the families of your kinsmen the lay people, and by the divisions of the families of the Levites.

Psalms

• Psalm 68:17
  The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 41:21
  The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar.
• Ezekiel 41:23
  And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.Both the outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary had double doors,
• Ezekiel 42:14
  When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”
• Ezekiel 44:27
  And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord God.And on the day he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he must present his sin offering, declares the Lord GOD.

Matthew

• Matthew 24:15
  When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

Luke

• Luke 1:9
  According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
• Luke 1:21
  And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he took so long in the temple.
• Luke 1:22
  And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained speechless.

Hebrews

• 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.A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
• Hebrews 9:8
  The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
• Hebrews 9:12
  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
• Hebrews 9:25
  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
• Hebrews 13:11
  For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

Notes

1. Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.