Hebrews 9:1
The former indeed had also justifications of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 they shall make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in the midst of them:
Leviticus 18:30Keep my commandments. Do not the things which they have done, that have been before you, and be not defiled therein. I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 9:12They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, a nor break a bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase.
Luke 1:6And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.
Hebrews 8:2A minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and not man.
Hebrews 8:13Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old, is near its end.
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 →