person
Melchizedek
מַלְכִּי־צֶ֫דֶקΜελχισεδέκ
Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High, who blessed Abraham.
- verses
- 11
- first named
- Genesis 14:18
- last named
- Hebrews 7:17
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Canaan
Description
Who was Melchizedek?
Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest of God Most High (Gen.14.18). He blessed Abraham and received a tithe from him after Abraham's victory over Chedorlaomer and his allies. Melchizedek brought out bread and wine, demonstrating his priestly role. The Psalms refer to the Messiah as a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek (Psa.110.4), indicating that Melchizedek's priesthood was seen as a type or foreshadowing of Christ's eternal priesthood. The book of Hebrews expands on this concept, presenting Jesus as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek (Heb.5.6,10; 6.20; 7.1,10,11,15,17,21). Melchizedek's unique priesthood, which combined royalty and priestly service to God Most High, is seen as a precedent for Jesus' eternal priesthood and kingship.
Relations
Direct connections
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Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Melchizedek is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
11 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), Psalms (1) and Hebrews (9).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Genesis 14Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of God Most High, brought out bread and wine, blessed Abram, and received a tenth of everything.
- Psalms 110Melchizedek is named in the oath that declares the ruler a priest forever.
- Hebrews 5Melchizedek gives his name to the order in which Christ is called a priest forever.
- Hebrews 6Melchizedek is named as the order in which Jesus becomes a high priest forever.
- Hebrews 7Melchizedek met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, blessed him, and received a tenth of everything.
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