Hebrews 7:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

Hebrews 7:4 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 14:20
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Acts 2:29
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Galatians 3:28-29
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. …
Acts 7:8-9
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. …

Topics

Melchesedec Melchizedek

Commentary

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 tha…

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

(vv. 4)

4. consider--not merely see, but weigh with attentive contemplation, the fact. even--“to whom (as his superior) Abraham even paid tithe (went so far as to pay tithe) of (consisting of, literally, ‘from’) the best of the spoils (literally, ‘the top of the heap”; whether of corn, the first-fruits of which, taken from the top, used to be consecrated to God; or of spoils, from the top of which the gen…