Hebrews 9:1
Now indeed therefore the first had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 25:8And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
Leviticus 18:30Therefore ye shall keep my charge, that ye not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you, and that ye not defile yourselves in it. I am LORD your God.
Numbers 9:12They shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.
Hebrews 8:2a minister of the holy things, and of the TRUE tabernacle, which the Lord erected and not man.
Hebrews 8:13In saying, New, he has made the first old. And what is becoming old and obsolete is near disappearance.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:1
The apostle, having declared the Old-Testament dispensation antiquated and vanishing away, proceeds to let the Hebrews see the correspondence there was between the Old Testament and the New; and that whatever was excellent in the Old was typical and representative of the New, which therefore must as far excel the Old as the substance does the shadow. The Old Testament was never intended to be rested in, but to prepare for the institutions of the gospel. And here he treats, I. Of the tabernacle, the place of… Read the whole commentary →