Hebrews 9:1

Now, the first covenant also had ordinances of worship, and the worldly sanctuary:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

In Context

2for a tabernacle was constructed, the first, in which were the candlestick, and the table, and the presence bread; and this tabernacle is called holy.

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Cross References

Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.

Hebrews 8:2a minister of the holy places, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Hebrews 8:13In saying, A new covenant, he has regarded the first as out of use. Now, that which is out of use, and has become old, is ready to disappear.

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 →

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