Hebrews 7:1-2 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-10

The foregoing chapter ended with a repetition of what had been cited once and again before out of Ps. 110:4; Jesus, a high priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec. Now this chapter is as a sermon upon that text; here the apostle sets before them some of the strong meat he had spoken of before, hoping they would by greater diligence be better prepared to digest it. I. The great question that first offers itself is, Who was this Melchisedec? All the account we have of him in the Old... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 7:1-28

We come now to a passage of such paramount importance for the writer to the Hebrews and in itself so difficult to understand that we must deal with it in a special way. Hebrews 6:1-20 , ( Hebrews 6:20 ), ended with the statement that Jesus had been made a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. This priesthood after the order of Melchizedek is the most characteristic thought of Hebrews. Behind it lie ways of thinking and of arguing and of using scripture which are quite strange to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 7:1

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 the Holy Ghost; and others, that he was a divine person superior to Christ, which needs no refutation; others have supposed that he was the Son of God himself: but he is expressly said to be like unto him, and Christ is said to be of his order; which manifestly distinguish the one from the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 7:2

To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all ,.... Or tithes, as in Genesis 14:20 . Philo the Jew F2 De Congressu, p. 438. renders the Hebrew phrase, מעשר מכל , just as the apostle does δεκατην απο παντων , "a tenth part of all", or "out of all"; not of all that he brought back, as Lot's goods, or the king of Sodom's, or any others; only of the spoils of the enemy, as in Hebrews 7:4 which is no proof of any obligation on men to pay tithes now to any order of men; for this... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 7:1

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem - See the whole of this history largely explained in the notes, See Genesis 14:18 ; (note), etc., and the concluding observations at the end of that chapter. The name Melchisedec, צדק מלכי is thus expounded in Bereshith Rabba, sec. 43, fol. 42, יושביו את מצדיק matsdie eth Yoshebaiv , "The Justifier of those who dwell in him;" and this is sufficiently true of Christ, but false of Jerusalem, to which the rabbins apply it, who state that it was... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 7:2

Gave a tenth part of all - It was an ancient custom, among all the nations of the earth, to consecrate a part or tenth of the spoils taken in war to the objects of their worship. Many examples of this kind occur. This however was not according to any provision in law, but merely ad libitum , and as a eucharistic offering to those to whom they imagined they owed the victory. But neither Abraham's decimation, nor theirs, had any thing to do, either with tithes as prescribed under the Mosaic... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 7:1

Verse 1 1.For this Melchisedec, etc. He has hitherto been stimulating the Jews by exhortations, that they might attentively consider the comparison between Christ and Melchisedec. At the end of the last chapter, that he might return from his digression to his subject, he quoted again the passage from the Psalms; and now he enters fully into what he had before slightly referred to; for he enumerates particularly the things connected with Melchisedec, in which he resembled Christ. It is indeed no... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-3

For this Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (this description belongs to the subject of the sentence, being merely a recapitulation of the facts recorded in Genesis, the language of the LXX . being used; what follows belongs properly to the predicate, being of the nature of a comment on the facts recorded); first, being by interpretation King... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-3

Melchizedek a type of Christ. "For this Melchizedek, King of Salem," etc. The various extraordinary conjectures as to the personality of Melchizedek "we may safely treat as fanciful and unneeded. The typology connected with Melchizedek does not require that he himself should be regarded as any superhuman person, but merely exalts the human circumstances under which he appears into symbols of superhuman things. Everything combines to show that Melchizedek was a Canaanitish king who had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-3

Melchizedek a typical priest. The inspired writer now resumes his consideration of Melchizedek as a type of our Lord as Priest, and notes the fact that he stands in Old Testament Scripture quite alone, and has no genealogy which informs us from whom he sprang, and has no successor to whom he hands over his priestly office. As far as Scripture narrative is concerned, he "abideth a high priest continually." The typical resemblances between Melchizedek and our Lord are— I. THE SUBLIME ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-10

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 7:1-28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 7:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 7:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 7:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 7:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 7:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 7:1-3

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