Hebrews 7:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

Hebrews 7:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 4:13
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Genesis 17:4-8
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. …
Genesis 13:14-17
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: …
Hebrews 7:3-4
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. …
Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

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. 6)

6. he whose descent is not counted from them--not from “the sons of Levi,” as those “who receive the priesthood.” This verse explains “without descent” (Greek, “genealogy” in both verses, He 7:3). He who needs not, as the Levitical priests, to be able to trace his genealogy back to Levi. received--Greek, “hath received tithes.” blessed--Greek, “hath blessed.” The perfect tense implies that the sig…