Hebrews 9:1

The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.

Darby Translation

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 set up; the first, in which [were] both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy;

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Cross References

Exodus 25:8And they shall make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

Leviticus 18:30And ye shall observe my charge, that ye commit not [any] of the abominable customs which were committed before you; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean therein: I am Jehovah your God.

Numbers 9:12They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to every ordinance of the passover shall they hold it.

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

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

Hebrews 8:13In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.

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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