Hebrews 7:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

Hebrews 7:23 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Cross-References

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Nehemiah 12:10-11
And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada, …
1 Chronicles 6:3-14
And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. …
Hebrews 7:8
And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

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. 23)

23. Another proof of superiority; the Levitical priests were many, as death caused the need of continually new ones being appointed in succession. Christ dies not, and so hath a priesthood which passes not from one to another. were--Greek, “are made.” many--one after another; opposed to His “unchangeable (that does not pass from one to another) priesthood” (He 7:24). not suffered to continue--Gree…