Melchisedec

Gender: Male

Years: -1913 - 64

Dictionary Text: King of righteousness, the king of Salem. All we know of him is recorded in. He is subsequently mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in. The typical significance of his history is set forth in detail in the Epistle to the Hebrews, ch. 7. The apostle there points out the superiority of his priesthood to that of Aaron in these several respects, Even Abraham paid him tithes; he blessed Abraham; he is the type of a Priest who lives for ever; Levi, yet unborn, paid him tithes in the person of Abraham; the permanence of his priesthood in Christ implied the abrogation of the Levitical system; he was made priest not without an oath; and his priesthood can neither be transmitted nor interrupted by death: “this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.” The question as to who this mysterious personage was has given rise to a great deal of modern speculation. It is an old tradition among the Jews that he was Shem, the son of Noah, who may have survived to this time. Melchizedek was a Canaanitish prince, a worshipper of the true God, and in his peculiar history and character an instructive type of our Lord, the great High Priest,; 6:20. One of the Amarna tablets is from Ebed-Tob, king of Jerusalem, the successor of Melchizedek, in which he claims the very attributes and dignity given to Melchizedek in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

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Verses

• Hebrews 7:10: For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
• Hebrews 7:21: For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
• Genesis 14:18: And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
• Hebrews 6:20: Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
• Hebrews 7:17: For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
• Hebrews 7:11: If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
• Hebrews 5:6: As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
• Hebrews 7:15: And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
• Hebrews 7:1: For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
• Psalms 110:4: The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
• Hebrews 5:10: Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.