Hebrews 9:1

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

In Context

2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first room were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is called the Holy Place.

Read all of Hebrews 9

Cross References

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

Hebrews 8:2where he serves as a minister of the holy places and the true tabernacle, which was set up by the Lord, not by man.

Hebrews 8:13In speaking of “a new covenant,” he has made the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Hebrews 9:1