Hebrews 9:1

Now, under the first covenant, there were ordinances of ministration, and a worldly sanctuary.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 which was erected, there was the candlestick, and the table and the bread of the presence; and this was called the Sanctuary.

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Cross References

Luke 1:6And they were both upright before God, and walked in all his commandments, and in the righteousness of the Lord, without reproach.

Hebrews 8:2And he is the minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which God hath pitched, and not man.

Hebrews 8:13In that he said a New Covenant, he made the first old; and that which is old and decaying, is near to dissolution.

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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