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;
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Gill's Exposition
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem,.... Various have been the opinions of writers concerning Melchizedek; some have thought him to be more than a man; some, that he was an angel; others, that he was…
Barnes' Notes
For this Melchisedek; - compare the notes on Heb 5:6. The name Melchizedek, from which the apostle derives a portion of his argument here, is Hebrew, מלכי־צדק Malkiy-Tsedeq, and is correctly explained…
Adam Clarke
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem - See the whole of this history largely explained in the notes, See Gen 14:18 (note), etc., and the concluding observations at the end of that chapter.
The name…
The foregoing chapter ended with a repetition of what had been cited once and again before out of Psa 110:4, Jesus, a high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec. Now this chapter is as a…
Cambridge Bible
For this Melchisedec All that is historically known of Melchisedek is found in three verses of the book of Genesis (Gen 14:18-20). In all the twenty centuries of sacred history he is only mentioned…
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