Most Holy Place

Most Holy Place is an altar named in 24 verses of the Bible. It is most likely in the Holy Place (1 Kings 6) (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 6:16
  And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.He partitioned off the 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.
• 1 Kings 6:17
  And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
• 1 Kings 6:21
  So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.So Solomon overlaid 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.
• 1 Kings 6:22
  And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
• 1 Kings 7:49
  And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
• 1 Kings 7:50
  And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
• 1 Kings 8:6
  And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 6:49
  But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 3:8
  And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
• 2 Chronicles 3:10
  And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
• 2 Chronicles 3:14
  And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
• 2 Chronicles 4:20
  Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
• 2 Chronicles 4:22
  And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.
• 2 Chronicles 5:7
  And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

Psalms

• Psalm 28:2
  Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 41:4
  So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
• Ezekiel 44:13
  And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.They must not approach Me to serve Me as priests or come near any of My holy things or the most holy things. They will bear the shame of the abominations they have committed.
• Ezekiel 45:3
  And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.From this holy portion, you are to measure off a length of 25,000 cubits and a width of 10,000 cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
• Ezekiel 48:12
  And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.It will be a special portion for them set apart from the land, a most holy portion adjacent to the territory of the Levites.

Daniel

• Daniel 9:24
  Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Hebrews

• Hebrews 9:3
  And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
• Hebrews 9:7
  But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
• Hebrews 10:19
  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
• Hebrews 10:20
  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

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.