히브리서 9:1-10:18 KRV

Then verily - Or, moreover. The object is to describe the tabernacle in which the service of God was celebrated under the former dispensation, and to show that it had a reference to what was future, and was only an imperfect representation of the reality. It was important to show this, as the Jews regarded the ordinances of the tabernacle and of the whole Levitical service as of divine appointment, and of perpetual obligation. The object of Paul is to prove that they were to give place to a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:1

Hebrews 9:1. To show that the old covenant was justly laid aside, the apostle judged it necessary to enter into a particular examination of the religious services which it enjoined, and to prove that these were designed not for cleansing the consciences of the worshippers, but to prefigure the services and blessings of the new or gospel covenant: so that the latter being come, there was no longer occasion for continuing the former to prefigure them. This chapter, therefore, is an illustration... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 9:1-10

Priestly work under the old covenant (9:1-10)Before discussing Christ’s priestly work further, the writer describes the tabernacle and its furniture (see introductory notes). The golden altar of incense, though kept in the Holy Place, was connected with the ark of the covenant in the ritual of the Day of Atonement (see Exodus 30:6; Leviticus 16:12-14,Leviticus 16:18-19). This may be why the writer mentions it as belonging to the Most Holy Place. He also mentions the three objects kept in the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 9:1

Then verily . . . also = Now even. covenant . No Greek. word. The ellipsis is rightly supplied by " covenant ". ordinances . Greek. dikaioma. App-191 . divine service . Greek. latreia. App-190 . worldly = earthly. Greek. kosmikos. See Titus 2:12 . sanctuary . See Hebrews 8:2 . Read "the sanctuary, an earthly one". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:1

DIVISION VCHRIST PROVIDES BETTER SACRIFICES (Hebrews 9:1-10:39);DESCRIPTION OF THE RITES AND SACRIFICES OF THE LAW;THEIR INFERIORITY TO THE DIGNITY AND THE PERFECTION OF CHRIST AND HIS BLOOD AND SACRIFICENow even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world. (Hebrews 9:1)The mundane sanctuary mentioned here is doubtless the tabernacle constructed and erected in the wilderness by Moses upon instructions of God; and the fact that the more... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:1

1. Then verily—Greek, "Accordingly then." Resuming the subject from :-. In accordance with the command given to Moses, "the first covenant had," c. had—not "has," for as a covenant it no longer existed, though its rites were observed till the destruction of Jerusalem. ordinances—of divine right and institution. service—worship. a worldly sanctuary—Greek, "its (literally, 'the') sanctuary worldly," mundane consisting of the elements of the visible world. Contrasted with the heavenly sanctuary.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:1-5

The "first covenant" was the Mosaic Covenant. The writer compared it first to the New Covenant that replaced it. The outer tabernacle (lit. dwelling place) was the holy place (Hebrews 9:2), and the inner tabernacle was the holy of holies (Hebrews 9:3). "The table and the sacred bread" (Hebrews 9:2) is a hendiadys for "the table of sacred bread." A hendiadys is a figure of speech in which a writer expresses a single complex idea by joining two substantives with "and" rather than by using an... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:1-10

The heavenly sanctuary 9:1-10"In case any of the readers should think that the writer was underestimating the old, he now outlines some of the glories of the old tabernacle. He is impressed by the orderliness of the arrangements within the Levitical cultus, and aims to present this in order to demonstrate the greater glory of the new." [Note: Guthrie, p. 178.] In this pericope the writer concentrated on the tabernacle and its provisions for cultic worship. "Cultic" refers to the rituals... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 9:1

9:1 service, (c-9) Latreia , from the same root as latreuo in ver. 6, see Note e. one. (d-15) The form of words here is greatly disputed. The grammatical order would require it to be translated 'the holy universal order;' but the word, it is contended, does not exist with this sense. I have not ventured so to translate it. I doubt it to be the same as kosmion , 'ornament.' Kosmos is 'the world,' from the order which is in it. The tabernacle represented all this order, the pattern of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:1-28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:1