Hebrews 5:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 5:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 110:4
The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:17
For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews 7:21
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
Hebrews 7:3
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Genesis 14:18-19
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

We have here an account of the nature of the priestly office in general, though with an accommodation to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are told, I. Of what kind of beings the high priest must be. He must be taken from among men; he must be a man, one of ourselves, bone of our bones, flesh of our flesh, and spirit of our spirits, a partaker of our nature, and a standard-bearer among ten thousand. This…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. He is here called simply “Priest”; in He 5:5, “High Priest.” He is a Priest absolutely, because He stands alone in that character without an equal. He is “High Priest” in respect of the Aaronic type, and also in respect to us, whom He has made priests by throwing open to us access to God [Bengel]. “The order of Melchisedec” is explained in He 7:15, “the similitude of Melchisedec.” The priesthoo…