Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Whereupon—rather, "Whence."
dedicated—"inaugurated." The Old Testament strictly and formally began on that day of inauguration. "Where the disposition, or arrangement, is ratified by the blood of another, namely, of animals, which cannot make a covenant, much less make a testament, it is not strictly a testament, where it is ratified by the death of him that makes the arrangement, it is strictly, Greek 'diathece,' Hebrew 'berith,' taken in a wider sense, a testament" [BENGEL]; thus, in Hebrews 9:18, referring to the old dispensation, we may translate, "the first (covenant)": or better, retain "the first (testament)," not that the old dispensation, regarded by itself, is a testament, but it is so when regarded as the typical representative of the new, which is strictly a Testament.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 9:18:
Exodus 24:5
Zechariah 9:11
Hebrews 9:18
Hebrews 9:24
Hebrews 10:20
Hebrews 12:24
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