Hebrews 9:1

Now even the first covenant had its ordinances of public worship, and its sanctuary, a material one.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2For a tent was built, the outer one called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp and the table and the loaves of the Presence;

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Cross References

Luke 1:6who was a descendant of Aaron. They were both righteous in the sight of the Lord, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the law, blameless.

Hebrews 8:2a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

Hebrews 8:13By calling the covenant "new," He has made the first one obsolete; and whatever is becoming obsolete and aged, is near to 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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