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  COMMENTARY ON HEBREWS 7-8
  by Chuck Smith
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Hebrews, the seventh chapter.

In the book of Genesis, after Abraham and Lot had parted company, there
was a confederation of five kings that conquered in the area where Lot
lived, and took him captive and spoiled several cities. Abraham, hearing
of it, armed his servants and he went out to met these five kings in
battle, and defeated them. He took from them the spoils that they had
taken from the many cities that they had conquered.

As Abraham was returning victoriously with the spoils from these five
kings, there came out to meet him a man by the name of Melchisedec. The
name means "the King of Righteousness." He was also known as "the King
of Salem," which being interpreted is "the King of Peace." Nothing is
told us concerning the origin of Melchisedec. We know nothing of his
genealogy, nothing of his parents. We know nothing of what happened to
him after his meeting with Abraham. This was 400 years before Moses and
the law.

Melchisedec, a mysterious priest of which we know so little, is only
mentioned twice in the Old Testament. The first time being there in
Genesis 19, when he met Abraham. But then in Psalm 110, out of the blue
the psalmist writes concerning God, that He had sworn with an oath that,
"Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec." This one
hundred tenth Psalm is a psalm concerning the Messiah. It begins, "The
Lord said unto my Lord, \

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