Hebrews 9:1

Now truly, the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2For there was a tabernacle prepared, in the first room of which was the lampstand, and the table, and the bread of the presence; this is called the sanctuary.

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Cross References

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

Hebrews 8:2A minister in the sanctuary, in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

Hebrews 8:13When he says, A new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete. Now that which is obsolete and grows old is ready to vanish away.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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