Hebrews 7:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ This “Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him,”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ FOR THIS Melchizedek, king of Salem [and] priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

American Standard Version (1901)

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,

Common English Bible

¹ This Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he returned from the defeat of the kings, and Melchizedek blessed him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham, as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ For this Melchisedech was king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

Hebrews 7:1 Cross References

Psalm 57:2

I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

Psalm 76:2

His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

Psalm 78:35

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tested the Most High God and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees

Daniel 4:2

The signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me I am pleased to recount.

Daniel 5:18

As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty.

Daniel 5:21

He was driven from human society, and his mind was made like that of an animal. His dwelling was with the wild asses, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and sets over it whomever he will.

Micah 6:6

“With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Mark 5:7

and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”

Acts 16:17

While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.”

Hebrews 6:20

where Jesus, a forerunner on our behalf, has entered, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:2

and to him Abraham apportioned “one-tenth of everything.” His name, in the first place, means “king of righteousness”; next, he is also king of Salem, that is, “king of peace.”

Hebrews 7:3

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

Hebrews 7:6

But this man, who does not belong to their ancestry, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises.