Lexicon :: Strong's H4720 - miqdāš

“You will bring them [into the land of promise] and plant them on the mountain (Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem) of Your inheritance,

The place, O LORD, You have made for Your dwelling [among them],

The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

Now those to camp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the Tent of Meeting, toward the sunrise, were to be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary for whatever was required of the Israelites; and the [fn]layman (non-Levite) who approached [the sanctuary] was to be put to death.

Then the Kohathites moved out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before they arrived.

So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s household (family) with you shall bear the guilt in connection with the sanctuary [that is, through your service as priests you will atone for the offenses which the people unknowingly commit when brought into contact with the manifestations of God’s presence]; and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt in connection with your priesthood [that is, your own unintentional offenses].

‘But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water for purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

O God, You are awesome and profoundly majestic from Your sanctuary;

The God of Israel gives strength and power to His people.

Blessed be God!

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;

Then I understood [for I considered] their end.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;

They have profaned the dwelling place of Your [fn]name.

And He built His sanctuary [exalted] like the heights [of the heavens],

Like the earth which He has established forever.

Splendor and majesty are before Him;

Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

“Then He shall be a sanctuary [a sacred, indestructible shelter for those who fear and trust Him];

But to both the houses of Israel [both the northern and southern kingdoms—Israel and Judah, He will be] a stone on which to stumble and a rock on which to trip,

A trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

So it will come to pass when Moab presents himself,

When he wearies himself [worshiping] on his high place [of idolatry]

And comes to his sanctuary [of Chemosh, god of Moab] to pray,

That he will not prevail.

“The glory of Lebanon will come to you,

The [fn]cypress, the juniper, and the cedar together,

To beautify the place of My sanctuary;

And I will honor and make the place of My feet glorious.

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while;

Our adversaries have trampled it down.

A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning,

Is the place of our sanctuary (the temple).

We are perplexed and ashamed, for we have heard reproach;

Disgrace has covered our faces,

For foreigners [from Babylon] have come

Into the [most] sacred parts of the sanctuary of the LORD [even those places forbidden to all but the appointed priest].

The adversary has spread out his hand

Over all her precious and desirable things;

For she has seen the [Gentile] nations enter her sanctuary (the Jerusalem temple)—

[fn]The ones whom You commanded

That they should not enter into Your congregation [not even in the outer courts].

The Lord has rejected His altar;

He has abandoned His sanctuary.

He has given into the hand of the enemy

The walls of her palaces;

They have made a noise in the house of the LORD

As on a day of an appointed feast.

See, O LORD, and look!

With whom have You dealt this way?

Should women eat their offspring,

The little ones who were born healthy and beautiful?

Should priest and prophet be killed

In the sanctuary of the Lord?

“You profaned your sanctuaries

By the great quantity of your sins and the enormity of your guilt,

By the unrighteousness of your trade.

Therefore I have brought forth a fire from your midst;

It has consumed you,

And I have reduced you to ashes on the earth

In the sight of all who look at you.