Hebrews 7:1
Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of the Most High God. He met Abraham who was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him.
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Genesis 14:18Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of the Most High God.
Psalms 57:2I cry out for help to God Most High, to God who vindicates me.
Psalms 78:35They remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their Savior.
Isaiah 41:2Who has encouraged this one from the east who is called into God's service to do what is right? He gives him nations, and helps him trample kings underfoot. He makes them like dust with his sword, and turns them into chaff with his bow, blown before him on the wind.
Daniel 5:18Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar this kingdom, and power, glory, and majesty.
Micah 6:6What should I take with me when I approach the Lord, when I bow down before the God of heaven? 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 →