Hebrews 7:6

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Summary

Hebrews 7:6

But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

Descent

Hebrews 7:3

Had

General references

Leviticus 27:30

Joshua 22:6

Mark 7:20

Bible References

Descent

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

Had

For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,
And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ.

General references

‘Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.

So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.

And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.