And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
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Gill's Exposition
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine,.... Both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem say, this is Shem the son of Noah, and which is the sense of the Jewish writers in general,…
- Abram Rescues Lot 1. אמרפל 'amrāpel, Amraphel; related: unknown. אלריוך 'aryôk, Ariok, “leonine?” related: ארי 'arı̂y, “a lion:” a name re-appearing in the time of Daniel Dan 2:14. אלסר 'elāsār…
Adam Clarke
And Melchizedek, king of Salem - A thousand idle stories have been told about this man, and a thousand idle conjectures spent on the subject of his short history given here and in Heb. vii. At present…
This paragraph begins with the mention of the respect which the king of Sodom paid to Abram at his return from the slaughter of the kings; but, before a particular account is given of this, the story…
Abram and Melchizedek
SPECIAL NOTE ON MELCHIZEDEK
1. Its significance. The episode of Melchizedek (Gen 14:18-20) is one of the most interesting in the Book of Genesis. Its extreme brevity heightens…
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