"And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of   
   God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the   
   shewbread was set; Moreover the candlesticks with their   
   lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the   
   oracle, of pure gold; And the flowers, and the lamps, and   
   the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold; 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."   
   2 Chronicles 4:19-22, KJV   
      
   "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: For   
   the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the   
   ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves   
   thereof above. 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."   
   2 Chronicles 5:7-9, KJV   
      
   In Ezekiel chapters forty-one through forty-five, it is   
   called "the most holy place":   
      
   "Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two   
   cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the   
   door, seven cubits. 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."   
   Ezekiel 41:3-4, KJV   
      
   "And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel   
   went astray, which went astray away from me after their   
   idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. Yet they shall   
   be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of   
   the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the   
   burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they   
   shall stand before them to minister unto them. Because they   
   ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the   
   house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I   
   lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and   
   they shall bear their iniquity. 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."   
   Ezekiel 44:10-13, KJV   
      
   "Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for   
   inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an   
   holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of   
   five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten   
   thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof   
   round about. Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five   
   hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square   
   round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs   
   thereof. 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."   
   Ezekiel 45:1-3, KJV   
      
   King David also makes mention of the Holy of Holies in one   
   of his prayers, found in Psalm 28:   
      
   "[A Psalm of David.] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock;   
   be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become   
   like them that go down into the pit. Hear the voice of my   
   supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands   
   toward thy holy oracle."   
   Psalms 28:1-2, KJV   
      
   There are many other verses in the Old Testament where the   
   term "the holy place" is used, but they are too many to list   
   here.   
      
   In the New Testament, Jesus referred to "the holy place"   
   when He gave His Endtime sermon in Matthew chapter   
   twenty-four. Whether He meant the general temple area, or   
   the actual Holy of Holies itself, is a matter of   
   speculation:   
      
   "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:)"   
   Matthew 24:15, KJV   
      
   In the his Epistle to the Hebrews, where Paul explains that   
   Jesus has become the Final Sacrifice for sin, and our   
   Eternal High Priest and Intercessor before the Throne of His   
   Father, he also refers back to Old Testament temple worship,   
   and the Holy of Holies, when he states:   
      
   "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 . . . Nor yet that he   
   should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into   
   the holy place every year with blood of others;"   
   Hebrews  9:12, 25, KJV   
      
      
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