1For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. …
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The foregoing chapter ended with a repetition of what had been cited once and again before out of Ps. 110:4; Jesus, a high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec . Now this chapter is as a sermon upon that text; here the apostle sets before them some of the strong meat he had spoken of before, hoping they would by greater diligence be better prepared to digest it. I. The great question th…
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