Hebrews 9:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:2

For there was a tabernacle made - The word “tabernacle” properly means a tent, a booth, or a hut, and was then given by way of eminence to the tent for public worship made by Moses in the wilderness. For a description of this, see Exodus 26:0. In this place the word means the “outer sanctuary” or “room” in the tabernacle; that is, the “first” room which was entered - called here “the first.” The same word - σκηνή skēnē - is used in Hebrews 9:3 to denote the “inner” sanctuary, or holy of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:2

Hebrews 9:2. For there was a tabernacle made Namely, the first part of it of which he speaks, of boards and curtains, pillars and coverings, which constituted a little apartment, as a kind of ante-chamber to the oracle; wherein was the candlestick Of pure gold, with its seven lamps perpetually burning with pure oil, and so giving light to all holy administrations. This undoubtedly represented the fulness of spiritual light which was to be in the Messiah, and by him to be communicated to... 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 9:2

tabernacle. Greek. skene, tent, which is used by the Septuagint to render the Hebrew mishkan (the structure) and 'ohel (the tent which covered it). Compare Exo 17:19 , Exo 17:21 . made = prepared. wherein = in (Greek. en . App-104 .) which. candlestick = lampstand. Exodus 25:31-40 . According to Josephus, only one in Herod's Temple. Ten in Solomon's; see 1 Kings 7:49 . table . Exodus 25:23-30 . shewbread . Literally the setting forth of the loaves. Exodus 25:30 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:2

For there was a tabernacle prepared the first wherein were the candlestick, and the table and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.For a diagram of the three compartments, the court, the holy place, and the most holy place, see in the tenth chapter. The "first" tabernacle in this verse is identified by the articles of furniture in it as the holy place. In it there were the golden candlestick on the south, the table of showbread on the north, and the golden altar of incense near the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 9:2

Hebrews 9:2. For there was a tabernacle, &c.— Concerning the tabernacle and its furniture we refer to the notes on that subject in Exodus. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:2

2. Defining "the worldly tabernacle." a tabernacle—"the tabernacle." made—built and furnished. the first—the anterior tabernacle. candlestick . . . table—typifying light and life ( :-). The candlestick consisted of a shaft and six branches of gold, seven in all, the bowls made like almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch. It was carried in Vespasian's triumph, and the figure is to be seen on Titus' arch at Rome. The table of shittim wood, covered with gold, was for the showbread ( :-).... 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 Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:1-28

The New Covenant and the Sacrifice of ChristHebrews 9:1 to Hebrews 10:39. The writer now proceeds to elaborate in greater detail the contrast between the old covenant and the new. The old covenant had its tabernacle with furniture and elaborate ceremonial and continual series of sacrifices, culminating in the annual visit of the high priest to the inner chamber of the tabernacle with sacrificial blood. But these very ceremonies implied the impossibility of communion with God, and were unable to... read more

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