Hebrews 9:1
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
Berean Standard Bible
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 are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
Leviticus 18:30You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
Numbers 9:12they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
Hebrews 8:2and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
Hebrews 8:13By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.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 →