Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, having met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, also blessed him.
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Genesis 14:18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he was priest of God Most High.
Psalms 57:2I will cry to God Most High, to God who performs for me.
Psalms 78:35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.
Isaiah 41:2Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east. He calls him to his foot? He gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
Daniel 5:18O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom and greatness and glory and majesty.
Micah 6:6Why shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 7:1
The doctrine of the priestly office of Christ is so excellent in itself, and so essential a part of the Christian faith, that the apostle loves to dwell upon it. Nothing made the Jews so fond of the Levitical dispensation as the high esteem they had of their priesthood, and it was doubtless a sacred and most excellent institution; it was a very severe threatening denounced against the Jews ( Hos. iii. 4 ), that the children of Israel should abide many days without a prince or priest, and without a sacrifice, and… Read the whole commentary →