Hebrews 9:1

But in the first there were ordinances of ministry, and a worldly sanctuary.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2For in the first tabernacle that was made there were the candelabrum, and the table, and the presencebread; and this was called the Holy place.

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Cross References

Luke 1:6And they were both just before Aloha, and walked in all his commandments, and in the righteousness of the Lord, without blame.

Hebrews 8:2and who hath become a Minister of the holy place, and of the true tabernacle, which Aloha hath framed, and not man.

Hebrews 8:13In that he said, THE NEW, he hath made the former old: and that which is antiquated, and hath grown old, is nigh unto decay.

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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