Hebrews 9:1

[Even] the first, indeed, therefore, used to have righteous appointments of divine service, even the holy ritual well arranged.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 prepared, the first, in which were both the lampstand and the table and the setting forth of the loaves,—the which is called the Holy place;

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Cross References

Exodus 25:8So shall they make for me a sanctuary,—and I will make my habitation in their midst:

Leviticus 18:30Therefore shall ye keep my charge, So that ye may have nothing to do with any of the abominable statutes with which they have had to do before you, So shall ye not make yourselves unclean thereby,—I—Yahweh, am your God.

Numbers 9:12They shall not leave thereof until morning, and no bone, shall they break therein—according to all the statutes of the passover, shall they keep it.

Luke 1:6Now they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and righteous appointments of the Lord, blameless;

Hebrews 8:2Of the Holy place, a public minister, and of the Real Tent, which, the Lord, pitched and not man.

Hebrews 8:13In saying, Of a new sort, he hath made obsolete, the first; but, the thing that is becoming obsolete and aged, is near, disappearing!

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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