Hebrews 9:1

Certainly, the former also had the justifications of worship and a holy place for that age.

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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 made at first, in which were the lampstand, and the table, and the bread of the Presence, which is called Holy.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:8And they shall make a sanctuary for me, and I will live in their midst.

Leviticus 18:30Keep my commandments. Do not be willing to do the things which have been done by those who were before you, and do not be polluted by these things. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 9:12They shall not leave behind any of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall observe all the rituals of the Passover.

Luke 1:6Now they were both just before God, progressing in all of the commandments and the justifications of the Lord without blame.

Hebrews 8:2who is the minister of holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which was established by the Lord, not by man.

Hebrews 8:13Now in saying something new, he has made the former old. But that which decays and grows old is close to passing away.

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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