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Genesis 14 Bible study: Priest of God Most High
Abram rescues Lot and meets two kings. Melchizedek, the first person the Bible calls a priest, brings out bread and wine, blesses Abram and receives a tenth of all, the Bible's first tithe; the king of Sodom offers riches and Abram refuses. Hebrews sees in Melchizedek a picture of Jesus, a priest forever.
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“Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.”
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“The New Testament says Melchizedek's name means ‘king of righteousness.’”
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What's really going on
A war, and a rescue
Four kings defeat the five kings of the plain, and "They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom" (14:12). Lot, who "moved his tent as far as Sodom" in chapter 13, now lives in it and is carried off. Abram hears, leads out "his three hundred eighteen trained men", and brings back "all the goods, and also… his relative Lot" (14:14-16).
Where it leads to Jesus
A priest forever
Genesis 14:18leads toHebrews 7:1-3
Melchizedek, king and priest, brings out bread and wine and blesses Abram. Psalm 110 promises "a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek", and Hebrews says Melchizedek was "made like the Son of God" (7:3), pointing to Jesus, "a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek" (6:20).
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- Two kings come to meet him
- "The LORD, God Most High"
- Melchizedek in the rest of the Bible
- "Abram, the Hebrew"
- 11 questions as you read
- 6 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶקMalki-Tsedeqsay mal-kee-TSEH-dek
Strong's derives the name from melekh, king, and tsedeq, righteousness, and gives "king of right"; Brown-Driver-Briggs reads the form as "my king is Ṣedeḳ" (that is, tsedeq). Hebrews gives its meaning: "being first, by interpretation, 'king of righteousness', and then also 'king of Salem', which means 'king of peace'" (7:2). The name appears in only two places in the Hebrew Bible: here and Psalm 110:4.
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Genesis 14 Bible study questions
- 1Lot moved to Sodom and was carried off with it, but Abram went after him. Who in your life might need you to go after them?
- 2Melchizedek blessed God "who has delivered your enemies into your hand". How do you give God the credit for the good things in your life?
- 3Abram refused a reward so no one could say the king of Sodom had made him rich. When is it right to turn down something good?
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