Holy of Holies

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Exodus 26:31-33 OT

  “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman. You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on…

• Leviticus 4:6 OT

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.

• Psalms 20:2 OT

  send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

• Leviticus 16:33 OT

  Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

• Exodus 28:29 OT

  Aaron 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.

• Leviticus 16:2 OT

  and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

• Leviticus 16:3 OT

  “Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

• Hebrews 9:3 NT

  After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

• 1 Kings 6:5 OT

  Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

• 1 Kings 6:16 OT

  He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

• 1 Kings 6:20 OT

  Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.

• Exodus 26:33 OT

  You 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 40:3 OT

  You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

• Exodus 40:21 OT

  He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Exodus 26:34 OT

  You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.

• Exodus 25:18-22 OT

  You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy…

• 1 Kings 6:23-28 OT

  In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high. Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits. The…

• Hebrews 9:4 NT

  having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

• Exodus 16:33 OT

  Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”

• Numbers 17:10 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”

• Deuteronomy 31:26 OT

  “Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.

• 2 Kings 22:8 OT

  Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

• Exodus 25:22 OT

  There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

• Hebrews 9:7 NT

  but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.