holy place

• “(Hebrews 10: 19,20) The holy place was only entered by the priests daily, to offer incense at the time of morning and evening prayer, and to renew the lights on the golden candlesticks; and on the sabbath, to remove the old shew-bread, and to place the new upon the table.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “Al – Najaf, generally entitled “Najaf al-Ashraf” (the Venerand) is the place where Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed, lies or is supposed to lie buried, and has ever been a holy place to the”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “He commands Chosroes, the son of Hormouz, to shun the example and fate of his father, to confine the traitors who had been released from their chains, to deposit in some holy place the diadem which he had usurped, and to accept from his gracious benefactor the pardon of his faults and the government of a province.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Vishnu, but in all these, the holy place is the linga-shrine, and the temple worship consists in the application of water and Bilva leaves to the stone symbol.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne

• “The Sion party, with its superstitious condfidence in the temple (vii, 4), incited the people to open revolt against Jeremias, because, at the gate and in the outer court of the temple, he prophesied the fate of the holy place in Silo for the house of the”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “He did not enter the holy place only to reside there in a way of glory, but to do temple-work, and to give unto God all that glory, honour, and worship, which he will receive from the church.”

  Christologia

• “It was certainly most striking, that, during the general concussion, even the walls of the temple trembled in their foundations, and the strongly-woven double curtain, which divided the holy place in the temple from the holy of holies, was rent by it, and thus in an instant the entrance to the inner sanctuary of the nation, allowed to the High-Priests alone but once a year, was laid open!”

  The German Pulpit, Being a Selection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Modern Divines of Germany.

• “The purification of the holy of holies and of the holy place being thus completed, the high priest laid his hands upon the head of the goat on which the lot "For Azazel" had fallen and confessed over it all the sins of the people.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “The making, fashioning, and use of the candlestick in the holy place of the tabernacle, you have,”

  The Sermons of John Owen

• “The tabernacle itself was to consist of curtains of fine linen woven with colored figures of cherubim, and a structure of boards which was to contain the holy place and the most holy place; the tent was to be a true tent of goat's hair cloth, to contain and shelter the tabernacle; the covering was to be of red ram-skins and seal-skins, (Exodus 25: 5) and was spread over the goat's hair tent as an additional protection against the weather.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

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