Verse 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;

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 14:18-20 : 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed [be] Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou 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 high God their redeemer.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
  • Isa 41:2-3 : 2 Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him] rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword, [and] as driven stubble to his bow. 3 He pursued them, [and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not gone with his feet.
  • Dan 4:2 : 2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
  • Dan 5:18 : 18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
  • 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: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
  • Mic 6:6 : 6 ¶ Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
  • Acts 16:17 : 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Gen 16:14-16 : 14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, [it is] between Kadesh and Bered. 15 ¶ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which 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.