Bible Verses About Sanctuary

"They are to make me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

Aharon and his sons are to put it in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain in front of the testimony, and keep it burning from evening until morning before ADONAI. This is to be a permanent regulation through all the generations of the people of Isra'el.

"'Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am ADONAI.

Outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aharon is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening until morning before ADONAI ; this is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations.

"'Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am ADONAI.

You will take charge of all the holy things and the altar, so that there will no longer be anger against the people of Isra'el.

Adonai rejected his altar, disowned his sanctuary, and gave her palace walls over to the power of the foe, who raised such shouts in the house of ADONAI that it sounded like a festival day.

ADONAI, look and see who it is you have thus tormented! Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children they have held in their hands? Should cohanim and prophets be slaughtered in the sanctuary of Adonai?

Therefore, say that Adonai ELOHIM says this: 'True, I removed them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries; nevertheless, I have been a little sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.'

He measured its four sides; it had a wall around it; and it was 875 [feet] long and 875 [feet] wide. Thus a division was made between what was holy and what was common.

There he serves in the Holy Place, that is, in the true Tent of Meeting, the one erected not by human beings but by Adonai.

But what they are serving is only a copy and shadow of the heavenly original; for when Moshe was about to erect the Tent, God warned him, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.”

A tent was set up, the outer one, which was called the Holy Place; in it were the menorah, the table and the Bread of the Presence.