Hebrew: מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק malkı̂y-tsedeqמֶלֶךְ
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought
forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high Alohim.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high
Alohim, possessor of heaven and earth:
And blessed be the most
high Alohim, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he
gave him tithes of all. Genesis
14:18-20
אהיה hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. Psalm 110:4
Dead Sea Scroll 11Q13 (11QMelch) is a fragment (that can be dated to the end of the 2nd or start of the 1st century BC) of a text about Melchizedek found in Cave 11 at Qumran in the Israeli Dead Sea area and which comprises part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this eschatological text, Melchizedek is seen as a divine being and Hebrew titles such as Alohim are applied to him. According to this text Melchizedek will proclaim the "Day of Atonement" and he will atone for the people who are predestined to him. He also will judge the peoples. Source - Wikipedia
For every high priest
taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to
Alohim, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
Who
can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the
way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
And by
reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to
offer for sins.
And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he
that is called of Alohim, as was Aaron.
So also Messiah glorified
not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou
art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
As he saith also in
another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchizedek.
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up
prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that
was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he
suffered;
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey him;
Called of Alohim an high
priest after the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 5:1-10
Heb 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham,
because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Heb
6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I
will multiply thee.
Heb 6:15 And so, after he had patiently
endured, he obtained the promise.
Heb 6:16 For men verily swear
by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all
strife.
Heb 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew
unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed
it by an oath:
Heb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it
was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who
have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Heb
6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Heb 6:20
Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high
priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Heb 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;
Heb 7:2 To whom also
Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King
of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of
peace;
Heb 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent,
having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto
the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Heb 7:4 Now
consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham
gave the tenth of the spoils.
Heb 7:5 And verily they that are of
the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a
commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that
is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
Heb 7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes
of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
Heb 7:7 And
without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Heb
7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth
them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
Heb 7:9 And as I
may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
Heb 7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec
met him.
Jesus Compared to Melchizedek
Heb 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?
Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed,
there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Heb 7:13 For
he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of
which no man gave attendance at the altar.
Heb 7:14 For it is
evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake
nothing concerning priesthood.
Heb 7:15 And it is yet far more
evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth
another priest,
Heb 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a
carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Heb
7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of
Melchisedec.
Heb 7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the
commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness
thereof.
Heb 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the
bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Heb 7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
Heb 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:)
Heb
7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Heb 7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not
suffered to continue by reason of death:
Heb 7:24 But this man,
because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
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