Hebrews 9:1
The first covenant, then, had indeed ordinances of religious service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Noyes 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
Luke 1:6And they were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Hebrews 8:2a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
Hebrews 8:13In that he saith, “a new covenant,” he hath made the first old; but that which is becoming old, and worn out with age, is ready to vanish away.
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 →