Skip to content

Bible Verses About Sanctuary

13 verses · 7 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

  2. In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.

  3. You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  4. Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.

  5. You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  6. And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and of the altar, so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.

  7. The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

  8. Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  9. Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’

  10. So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

  11. and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.

  12. The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

  13. A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread. This was called the Holy Place.