Bible Verses About Holy Places

The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.

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.

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer–sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.

Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.