Hebrews 9:1

It had, indeed, then (even the first dwelling place) ordinances of service, also a worldly 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

2for a dwelling place was prepared, the first, in which was both the lampstand, and the table, and the Bread of the Presentation—which is called “Holy”;

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Cross References

Exodus 25:8And they have made a sanctuary for Me, and I have dwelt in their midst;

Leviticus 18:30and you have kept My charge, so as not to do [any] of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and you do not defile yourselves with them; I [am] your God YHWH.”

Numbers 9:12they do not leave of [it] until morning; and they do not break a bone in it; they prepare it according to all the statute of the Passover.

Luke 1:6and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the LORD blameless,

Hebrews 8:2a servant of the holy places, and of the true dwelling place, which the LORD set up, and not man,

Hebrews 8:13In the saying “new,” He has made the first obsolete, and what is becoming obsolete and growing old [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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