Hebrews 9:3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Behind the second curtain was a tent called the Holy of Holies.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:16

He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the rafters, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the most holy place.

1 Kings 8:6

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

2 Chronicles 3:14

And Solomon made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and worked cherubim into it.

Exodus 40:21

and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the curtain for screening, and screened the ark of the covenant; as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:3

You shall put in it the ark of the covenant, and you shall screen the ark with the curtain.

Isaiah 25:7

And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever.

Ezekiel 41:4

He measured the depth of the room, twenty cubits, and its width, twenty cubits, beyond the nave. And he said to me, This is the most holy place.

Numbers 4:5

When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the covenant with it;

Matthew 27:51

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split.

Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain,

Hebrews 9:7

but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year, and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.

Hebrews 9:8

By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary has not yet been disclosed as long as the first tent is still standing.