Hebrews 9:1
Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.
Bible in Basic English
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 holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.
Leviticus 18:30So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 9:12Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.
Luke 1:6They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
Hebrews 8:2As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
Hebrews 8:13When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
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 →