Hebrews 9:1

Then indeed the first tabernacle also, had ordinances of service, and a sanctuary for this world.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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; in which there were candlesticks, and the table, and shew-bread; which is called, Holy.

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Cross References

Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.

Hebrews 8:2The minister of the holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which God pitched, and not man.

Hebrews 8:13In that he calls it new, he has made the first one old; but that which is old and antiquated is nigh unto vanishing.

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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