Hebrews 9:1

Now that first covenant did indeed have regulations for divine service and the earthly sanctuary.

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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

2Yes, a tabernacle was set up: the first part, which is called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp stand, the table and the showbread;

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Cross References

Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Hebrews 8:2Minister of the Holy Places, that is, of the true Tabernacle which the Lord set up, not man.

Hebrews 8:13By saying ‘new’ He has made the first one ‘old’; and what is obsolete and aging is near the end.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 →

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