Kejadian 14:18

14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem ¹  brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.) ² 

Ulangan 23:4

23:4 for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired ³  Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

Ulangan 23:1

Purity in Public Worship

23:1 A man with crushed ⁴  or severed genitals ⁵  may not enter the assembly of the Lord. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ⁷  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ⁸  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

1 Samuel 25:2

David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal

25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; ⁹  he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 17:28-29

17:28 When David’s ¹⁰  oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry ¹¹  with David and said, “Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! ¹²  You have come down here to watch the battle!”

17:29 David replied, “What have I done now? Can’t I say anything?” ¹³ 

1 Samuel 17:3

17:3 The Philistines were standing on one hill, and the Israelites ¹⁴  on another hill, with the valley between them.

Yohanes 1:6-8

1:6 A man came, sent from God, whose name was John. ¹⁵  1:7 He came as a witness ¹⁶  to testify ¹⁷  about the light, so that everyone ¹⁸  might believe through him. 1:8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify ¹⁹  about the light.

[14:18]  ¹ sn Salem is traditionally identified as the Jebusite stronghold of old Jerusalem. Accordingly, there has been much speculation about its king. Though some have identified him with the preincarnate Christ or with Noah’s son Shem, it is far more likely that Melchizedek was a Canaanite royal priest whom God used to renew the promise of the blessing to Abram, perhaps because Abram considered Melchizedek his spiritual superior. But Melchizedek remains an enigma. In a book filled with genealogical records he appears on the scene without a genealogy and then disappears from the narrative. In Psalm 110 the Lord declares that the Davidic king is a royal priest after the pattern of Melchizedek.

[14:18]  ² tn The parenthetical disjunctive clause significantly identifies Melchizedek as a priest as well as a king.

[14:18]  sn It is his royal priestly status that makes Melchizedek a type of Christ: He was identified with Jerusalem, superior to the ancestor of Israel, and both a king and a priest. Unlike the normal Canaanites, this man served “God Most High” (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן, ’el ’elyon) – one sovereign God, who was the creator of all the universe. Abram had in him a spiritual brother.

[23:4]  ³ tn Heb “hired against you.”

[23:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.”

[23:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “cut off with respect to the penis”; KJV, ASV “hath his privy member cut off”; English versions vary in their degree of euphemism here; cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, NLT “penis”; NASB “male organ”; NCV “sex organ”; CEV “private parts”; NIV “emasculated by crushing or cutting.”

[23:1]  ⁶ sn The Hebrew term translated “assembly” (קָהָל, qahal) does not refer here to the nation as such but to the formal services of the tabernacle or temple. Since emasculated or other sexually abnormal persons were commonly associated with pagan temple personnel, the thrust here may be primarily polemical in intent. One should not read into this anything having to do with the mentally and physically handicapped as fit to participate in the life and ministry of the church.

[25:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ⁸ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

[25:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “great.”

[17:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the anger of Eliab became hot.”

[17:28]  ¹² tn Heb “the wickedness of your heart.”

[17:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “Is it not [just] a word?”

[17:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Israel.”

[1:6]  ¹⁵ sn John refers to John the Baptist.

[1:7]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “came for a testimony.”

[1:7]  sn Witness is also one of the major themes of John’s Gospel. The Greek verb μαρτυρέω (marturew) occurs 33 times (compare to once in Matthew, once in Luke, 0 in Mark) and the noun μαρτυρία (marturia) 14 times (0 in Matthew, once in Luke, 3 times in Mark).

[1:7]  ¹⁷ tn Or “to bear witness.”

[1:7]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “all.”

[1:8]  ¹⁹ tn Or “to bear witness.”