Hebrews 9:1
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 25:8And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Leviticus 18:30Therefore shall ye keep my ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves in them; I am the LORD your God.
Numbers 9:12They shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Hebrews 8:2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Hebrews 8:13In that he saith, A new covenant , he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and groweth 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 →