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Melchisedec

Also called Melchizedek

Mentioned 1912 BC to AD 64 traditional (Jones)

King of righteousness, the king of Salem (q.v.). All we know of him is recorded in Gen. 14:18-20.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

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11 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

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Places

Places named in the same verses as Melchisedec, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Salem2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2406 BC to AD 100, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

11 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Genesis1
  2. Psalms1
  3. Hebrews9

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBMelchisedec 0Melchizedek 14
KJVMelchisedec 9Melchizedek 2
ASVMelchisedec 0Melchizedek 10

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Every verse

All 11 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis1 verse
  1. 14:18

    Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—

Psalms1 verse
  1. 110:4

    The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews9 verses
  1. 5:6

    And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  2. 5:10

    and was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

  3. 6:20

    where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

  4. 7:1

    This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

  5. 7:10

    For when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the loin of his ancestor.

  6. 7:11

    Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

  7. 7:15

    And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,

  8. 7:17

    For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  9. 7:21

    but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

King of righteousness, the king of Salem (q.v.). All we know of him is recorded in Gen. 14:18-20. He is subsequently mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in Ps. 110:4. The typical significance of his history is set forth in detail in the Epistle to the Hebrews, ch. 7. The apostle there points out the superiority of his priesthood to that of Aaron in these several respects, (1) Even Abraham paid him tithes; (2) he blessed Abraham; (3) he is the type of a Priest who lives for ever; (4) Levi, yet unborn, paid him tithes in the person of Abraham; (5) the permanence of his priesthood in Christ implied the abrogation of the Levitical system; (6) he was made priest not without an oath; and (7) his priesthood can neither be transmitted nor interrupted by death: “this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.”

The question as to who this mysterious personage was has given rise to a great deal of modern speculation. It is an old tradition among the Jews that he was Shem, the son of Noah, who may have survived to this time. Melchizedek was a Canaanitish prince, a worshipper of the true God, and in his peculiar history and character an instructive type of our Lord, the great High Priest (Heb. 5:6, 7; 6:20). One of the Amarna tablets is from Ebed-Tob, king of Jerusalem, the successor of Melchizedek, in which he claims the very attributes and dignity given to Melchizedek in the Epistle to the Hebrews.