Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,
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Genesis 14:18And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,
Psalms 57:2\57:1\Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.
Psalms 78:35In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.
Isaiah 41:2Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
Daniel 5:18As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:
Micah 6:6With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen 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 →