Hebrews 9:1
It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,
Young's Literal Translation
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 25:8'And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;
Leviticus 18:30and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do [any] of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I [am] Jehovah your God.'
Numbers 9:12they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.
Luke 1:6and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
Hebrews 8:2of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,
Hebrews 8:13in the saying 'new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old [is] nigh 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 →