Hebrews 9:1
Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.
World English Bible British
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 25:8Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell amongst them.
Leviticus 18:30Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practise any of these abominable customs which were practised before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.’”
Numbers 9:12They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
Hebrews 8:2a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man.
Hebrews 8:13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first obsolete. But that which is becoming obsolete and grows aged is near to vanishing 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 →