Verse 1

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 14:18-20 : 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not.
  • Ps 76:2 : 2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, And his dwelling-place in Zion.
  • Ps 78:35 : 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
  • Isa 41:2-3 : 2 Who hath raised up one from the east, whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow. 3 He pursueth them, and passeth on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
  • Dan 4:2 : 2 It hath seemed good unto me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.
  • Dan 5:18 : 18 O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
  • Dan 5:21 : 21 and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts', and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will.
  • Mic 6:6 : 6 Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?
  • Acts 16:17 : 17 The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim unto you the way of salvation.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Gen 16:14-16 : 14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
  • Ps 57:2 : 2 I will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that performeth [all things] for me.