The inner room of the Tabernacle and Jerusalem Temple where sacred rituals were performed.
About The Holy Place
The Holy Place was the interior of the Jerusalem Temple or of the earlier Tabernacle. This interior contained two rooms, an outer one and an inner one. “Holy Place” may refer to either one of these rooms. Most often “Holy Place” refers to the larger room outside the veil, while the smaller room on its west end is called the “Most Holy Place” or “Holy of Holies” (see Holy of Holies, Most Holy Place). In the Tabernacle the Holy Place measured 10 by 20 cubits (5 by 10 meters; 16.5 by 33 feet), while in the Temple it was 20 cubits by 40 cubits (10 by 20 meters; 33 by 66 feet).
Key References
A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
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.
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Hebrews (8)
A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
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.
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.
For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
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.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
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.