Sanctuary
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Sanctuary in the Bible Dictionary
- (The Holy of Holies)
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In the tabernacle
Heb 9:2
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:2 -
Divine dwelling place
Ex 25:8
8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Exodus 25:8 -
Reverence for
Lev 19:30; 26:2
30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:302 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 26:2 -
In the charge of high priest
Ex 27:21; Lev 24:3; Num 18:5
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.
Exodus 27:213 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.
Leviticus 24:35 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.
Numbers 18:5 -
The Holy Place in the temple
Lam 2:7, 20; Ezek 42:20
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 2:720 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?
Lamentations 2:2020 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.
Ezekiel 42:20 -
Figurative
Ezek 11:16
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.
Ezekiel 11:16 -
Symbolical
Heb 8:2, 5
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Hebrews 8:25 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.
Hebrews 8:5 - See Tabernacle
- See Temple
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
