Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
Parallel translations
- WEB He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV He measured the length, twenty cubits; and the width, twenty cubits, beyond the sanctuary; and he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
- NASB And he measured its length, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the sanctuary; and he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
- NLT The inner room of the sanctuary was 35 feet long and 35 feet wide. “This,” he told me, “is the Most Holy Place.”
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Quick answer
The inner room measured twenty cubits square, and the guide declares it the Most Holy Place. This is the dwelling place of God's presence, the holiest of all.
Overview
The guide identifies the perfect cube-like inner chamber as the Most Holy Place, corresponding to the holiest room in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 6:20). It represents the very dwelling of God among his people. The veil that once barred entry was torn at Christ's death (Matthew 27:51), opening the way for all believers to draw near.
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- 1 Kgs 6:20The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- Heb 9:3–8Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
- 2 Chr 3:8Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
- Exod 26:33–34And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- 1 Kgs 6:16He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- 1 Kgs 6:5Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- Rev 21:16The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
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