Hebrews 9:1

Then the first Testament had also ordinances of religion, and a worldly Sanctuarie.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2For the first Tabernacle was made, wherein was the candlesticke, and the table, and the shewebread, which Tabernacle is called the Holy places.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:8Also they shall make me a Sanctuarie, that I may dwell among them.

Leviticus 18:30Therefore shall yee keepe mine ordinances that ye do not any of the abominable customes, which haue bene done before you, and that yee defile not your selues therein: for I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 9:12They shall leaue none of it vnto the morning, nor breake any bone of it: according to all the ordinance of the Passeouer shall they keepe it.

Luke 1:6Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.

Hebrews 8:2And is a minister of the Sanctuarie, and of that true Tabernacle which the Lord pight, and not man.

Hebrews 8:13In that he saith a new Testament, he hath abrogate the olde: nowe that which is disanulled and waxed olde, 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 →

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