Ibrani 5:10

5:10 and he was designated ¹  by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek. ² 

Kejadian 14:18

14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem ³  brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.) ⁴ 

Ibrani 6:20

6:20 where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. ⁵ 

[5:10]  ¹ tn Grk “having been designated,” continuing the thought of Heb 5:9.

[5:10]  ² sn The phrase in the order of Melchizedek picks up the quotation from Ps 110:4 in Heb 5:6.

[14:18]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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.

[6:20]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Ps 110:4, picked up again from Heb 5:6, 10.