Hebrews 9:1

Now even the first Covenant had regulations for divine worship, and had also its sanctuary--a sanctuary belonging to this world.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2For a sacred tent was constructed--the outer one, in which were the lamp and the table and the presented loaves; and this is called the Holy place.

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Cross References

Luke 1:6They were both of them upright before God, blamelessly obeying all the Lord's precepts and ordinances.

Hebrews 8:2and ministers in the Holy place and in the true tabernacle which not man, but the Lord pitched.

Hebrews 8:13By using the words, "a new Covenant," He has made the first one obsolete; but whatever is decaying and showing signs of old age is not far from disappearing altogether.

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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