They built a room 20 cubits [40] long deep inside the back part of the temple. They covered the walls in this room with cedar boards. The cedar boards went from the floor to the ceiling. This room was called the Most Holy Place.
2 Chronicles 3:8 - Easy To Read Version Then Solomon made the Most Holy Place. {\cf2\super [31]} The Most Holy Place was 20 cubits {\cf2\super [32]} long and 20 cubits {\cf2\super [33]} wide. It was as wide as the temple {\cf2\super [34]} was. Solomon put pure gold on the walls of the Most Holy Place. The gold weighed about 23 tons. {\cf2\super [35]} Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He made the Most Holy Place, its length equaling the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; he overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold. American Standard Version (1901) And he made the most holy house: the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. Common English Bible Then he made the most holy place. It was as long as the temple was wide, thirty feet long and thirty feet wide. He covered it with six hundred kikkars of fine gold. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he made the house of the Holy of Holies. Its length, in accord with the width of the temple, was of twenty cubits. And its width, similarly, was of twenty cubits. And he covered it with layers of gold, of about six hundred talents. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He made also the house of the Holy of Holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents. |
They built a room 20 cubits [40] long deep inside the back part of the temple. They covered the walls in this room with cedar boards. The cedar boards went from the floor to the ceiling. This room was called the Most Holy Place.
Put the curtain under the gold rings. [205] Then put the Box of the Agreement [206] behind the curtain. This curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Then the man measured the length of the room. It was 20 cubits {\cf2\super [368]} long and 20 cubits {\cf2\super [369]} wide. The man said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
And so, brothers and sisters, we are completely free to enter the Most Holy Place. {\cf2\super [133]} We can do this without fear because of the blood (death) of Jesus.
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place. {\cf2\super [93]}
This is an example for us today. This shows that the gifts and sacrifices {\cf2\super [103]} that were offered to God were not able to fully cleanse the person who was worshiping God. Those sacrifices could not make that person perfect in his heart.