Hebrews 7:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

Hebrews 7:20 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 18:7
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Hebrews 5:6
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Psalms 110:4
The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

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Melchesedec Melchizedek

Commentary

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

(vv. 11-28)

Observe the necessity there was of raising up another priest, after the order of Melchisedec and not after the order of Aaron, by whom that perfection should come which could not come by the Levitical priesthood, which therefore must be changed, and the whole economy with it, Heb. 7:11, 12 Here, I. It is asserted that perfection could not come by the Levitical priesthood and the law. They could no…

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

(vv. 20)

20. Another proof of the superiority of Christ’s Melchisedec-like priesthood; the oath of God gave a solemn weight to it which was not in the law-priesthood, which was not so confirmed. he was made priest--rather supply from He 7:22, which completes the sentence begun in this verse, He 7:21 being a parenthesis, “inasmuch as not without an oath He was made surety of the testament (for, &c.), of so…