Verse Genesis 14:18. _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...
- 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 Daniel 2:14....
CHAPTER 14 THE FIRST RECORDED WAR AND LOT'S DELIVERANCE _ 1. The battle of the confederacy (Genesis 14:1)_ 2. Sodom and Gomorrah spoiled (Genesis 14:11) 3. Abram's rescue (Genesis 14:14) 4. S
GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...
ABRAHAM AND MELCHIZEDEK. This section comes in a little awkwardly, for we should have expected Genesis 14:21 to have followed Genesis 14:17. It would be hazardous to infer that it is a later insertion...
Note the parenthetical clause Genesis 14:18, which interrupts in order to interpret. MELCHIZEDEK. King of righteousness, or by Figure of Speech _Enallage_, (App-6), righteous king. In History, Genesis...
Abram and Melchizedek SPECIAL NOTE ON MELCHIZEDEK 1. _Its significance_. The episode of Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18-20) is one of the most interesting in the Book of Genesis. Its extreme brevity heig...
_Melchizedek king of Salem_ The name Melchizedek was considered by the Jews to mean "the king of righteousness" (Hebrews 7:2), or "my king" (_malchi_) "is righteousness" (_zedek_). The name should be...
DISCOURSE: 22 MELCHIZEDEC BLESSING ABRAM Genesis 14:18. _And Melchizedec king of Salem brought forth tread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed...
_4. The Biblical Account (ch. 14)._ And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 2 that they made war with Be...
_AND MELCHIZEDEK KING OF SALEM BROUGHT FORTH BREAD AND WINE: AND HE WAS THE PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD._ Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. This victory conferred a public benef...
14:18 Melchisedec (c-2) King of righteousness. *God. (d-19) _ El Elyon_ . _ El_ itself means 'The Mighty;' _ Elyon_ is habitually represented by 'Most High.' See Note to Genesis 1:1 also Deuteronomy 3...
THE BATTLE OF THE KINGS, AND THE CAPTURE AND RESCUE OF LOT Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, had subdued the Canaanites of the Jordan valley some years before the events narrated in this chapter. The latte...
MELCHIZEDEK] The word may mean 'Sidik' (a deity) 'is my king,' although in Hebrews 7 the Jewish writer in connexion with his argument explains it as 'King of righteousness.' In Joshua 10:3, five hundr...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 14 THE FIGHT BETWEEN 4 KINGS AND 5 KINGS V1 At this time there were 4 kings. One was Amraphel and he was the king of Shinar. Another king was Ari...
‘Salem’ was probably the city that is also called Jerusalem. Melchizedek was the king of Salem. The word ‘Melchizedek’ means ‘*righteous king’. ‘He produced bread and wine.’ Bread and wine were ordin...
MELCHIZEDEK KING OF SALEM. — There is a Salem near Scythopolis in the tribe of Ephraim, near to which John baptised (John 3:23, where it is called _Salim_)_,_ and Jerome mentions that some local ruins...
וּ מַלְכִּי־צֶ֨דֶק֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ שָׁלֵ֔ם הֹוצִ֖יא לֶ֣חֶם...
ABRAM'S RESCUE OF LOT Genesis 14:1 THIS chapter evidently incorporates a contemporary account of the events recorded. So antique a document was it even when it found its place in this book, that the...
ABRAM AND MELCHIZEDEK Genesis 14:13 Recently discovered monuments confirm this narrative of the confederacy of the kings, but do not tell of their overthrow. Abram might fairly have left Lot to reap...
In this chapter we see Lot and Abram in differing circumstances, resulting in the first case from personal choice, and in the second from the choice of God. Lot was involved in trouble through associa...
The Bible is full of promises so great they stagger the imagination. Anyone would like to receive the blessings they contain, if he could only believe God is able to keep his word. Our purpose in this...
And Melchizedek king of Salem (h) brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God. (h) For Abram and his soldiers refreshment, not to offer sacrifice....
Melchisedech was not Sem: for his genealogy is given in Scripture. (Hebrew xii. 6.); nor God the Son, for they are compared together; nor the Holy Ghost, as some have asserted; but a virtuous Gentile...
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. I beg the Reader, very particularly, in entering upon the perusal of these verses, to...
We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
18._And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth_. This is the last of the three principal points of this history, that Melchizedek, the chief father of the Church, having entertained Abram at a feast,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. After this (chap. 13) we have, in the conduct of Abram and Lot, the disinterestedness and self-renunciation of true faith on the one hand, and, on...
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, a...
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God. Ver. 18. _Melehizedek king of Salem._] Who this Melchizedek was is much controverted. Some wo...
It has been a great question among expositors, who Melchizedek was. The Jewish rabbins say that he was Shem, the son of Noah, who was _king_ and _priest_ to those that were descended from him, accordi...
1 The battell of foure Kings against fiue. 11 Lot is taken prisoner. 14 Abram rescueth him. 18 Melchi-zedek blesseth Abram. 20 Abram giueth him tithe. 22 The rest of the spoile, his partners haui...
ABRAHAM'S RETURN...
And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine; and he was the priest of the most high God. of this Melchizedek, king of Salem, probably Jerusalem, nothing more is known. Cf Hebrews 7:3....
THIRD SECTION _Abram and his War with the Heathen robber-bands for the rescue of Lot. The victorious Champion of Faith and his greeting to Melchizedec, the prince of peace. His conduct towards the Ki...
THE WORLD'S CONFLICT We read now for the first time in scripture of war among nations of the ungodly world. Abram has no part in this. It is recorded mainly because of Lot. Four kings war against five...
17-20 Melchizedek is spoken of as a king of Salem, supposed to be the place afterwards called Jerusalem, and it is generally thought that he was only a man. The words of the apostle, Hebrews 7:3, sta...
QUEST. Who was this? ANSW. 1. Shem, as the Jews and many others think, who probably was alive at this time, and, no doubt, a great prince. But neither is it probable that Shem should be a king among t...
We are, here, presented with an historic record of the revolt of five kings from under the hand of Chederlaomer, and a battle consequent thereon. The Spirit of God can occupy himself with the movement...
Genesis 14:18 Melchizedek H4442 king H4428 Salem H8004 out H3318 (H8689) bread H3899 wine H3196 priest H3548 God...
‘And Melchizedek, King of Salem, brought out bread and wine, and he was a priest of El Elyon (God Most High). And he said, “Blessed be Abram of El Elyon, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be...
MELCHIZEDEK 1 Melchizedek, type of Christ the King-Priest. The type strictly applies to the priestly work of Christ in resurrection, since Melchizedek presents only the memorials of sacrifice, bread...
Genesis 14:18 Never, perhaps, was any warlike expedition conceived in such simplicity of intention, or carried out with such entire unselfishness, as when Abraham led his trained servants to recover...
Genesis 14:17. _And the King of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale....
Genesis 14:17. _And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale....
CONTENTS: Abram delivers Lot. Abram's refusal to compromise with the King of Sodom. CHARACTERS: King of Sodom, Lot, Abram, Melchizedek. CONCLUSION: Genuine faith never wraps itself in fleece while a...
Genesis 14:1. _Amraphel king of Shinar,_ the plain on which Babylon was built. The Hebrew _melech,_ everywhere translated king, is equivalent, according to the Gothic etymon of the same word, to a fig...
_Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine_ THE NARRATIVE OF MELCHIZEDEK I. CONSIDER THE HISTORICAL FACTS OF THIS NARRATIVE. 1. Melchizedek makes his appearance at the close of the fir...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 14:17. Valley of Shaveh] Shaveh means valley or dale. Nothing is known of its situation.— GENESIS 14:18. MELCHIZEDEK, KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS] The Jews identify him with Shem....
EXPOSITION GENESIS 14:17 AND THE KING OF SODOM—Bera, or his successor (_vide_ Genesis 14:10)—WENT OUT TO MEET HIM (_i.e._ Abram) AFTER HIS RETURN FROM THE SLAUGHTER (perhaps too forcible an expressio...
And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel the king of Shinar (Genesis 14:1), Now Shinar is Babylon. and Arioch the king of Ellasar [which is Babylonia], and Chedorlaomer the king of Elam [which is...
king. Psalms 76:2 Hebrews 7:1 Hebrews 7:2 bread. Matthew 26:26 Galatians 6
ABRAM DELIVERS LOT Genesis 14:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us bring before you the opening verses of Genesis fourteen. WE HAVE BEFORE US A STORY OF WAR AND STRIFE. The various kings of cities and nati...
The Rabbins say, that Melchizedek was Shem the son of Noah, who was king and priest to those that descended from him, according to the patriarchal model. Many Christian writers have thought that this...
Who was Melchizedek? PROBLEM: There is some debate over the nature of Melchizedek. Was he a historical person, a super-normal being, or just a mythical figure? SOLUTION: Based on Hebrews 7, some have...