Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
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Genesis 14:18Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
Psalms 57:2I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.
Psalms 78:35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
Isaiah 41:2Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
Daniel 5:18“To you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.
Micah 6:6How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted 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 →