Hebrews 7:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

Hebrews 7:8 —

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Cross-References

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Hebrews 6:20
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews 5:6
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Revelation 1:18
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
John 14:19
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Hebrews 7:23
And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

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. 8)

8. Second point of superiority: Melchisedec’s is an enduring, the Levitical a transitory, priesthood. As the law was a parenthesis between Abraham’s dispensation of promise of grace, and its enduring fulfilment at Christ’s coming (Ro 5:20, Greek, “The law entered as something adscititious and by the way”): so the Levitical priesthood was parenthetical and temporary, between Melchisedec’s typically…