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Psalms 110:4

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

KJV

Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum, misericors et miserator Dominus.

Vulgate

μνείαν ἐποιήσατο τῶν θαυμασίων αὐτοῦ, ἐλεήμων καὶ οἰκτίρμων ὁ κύριος·

LXX

Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.

ASV

נִשְׁבַּ֤ע יְהוָ֨ה וְ/לֹ֥א יִנָּחֵ֗ם אַתָּֽה כֹהֵ֥ן לְ/עוֹלָ֑ם עַל דִּ֝בְרָתִ֗י מַלְכִּי צֶֽדֶק

Hebrew

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People Melchizedek

In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
דִּבְרַת֙
dbrt
noun · 5×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
כֹּהֵ֔ן
khn
noun · 747×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַלְכִּי
mlky
proper_noun · 4×
נִי
ny
verb · 108×
נִשְׁבַּ֥ע
nshb'
verb · 182×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 2 later passages.

  • Heb 5:6 · exact_quote
    "As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."
    Psalm 110: you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek
  • Heb 7:17 · exact_quote
    "For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."
    Psalm 110: priest forever — repeated citation for Melchizedek argument

Themes

Prophecy

Typology

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1537The word order in Roman antiquity designated an established civil body, especially a governing body. Ordinatio means incorporation into an ordo. In the Church there are established bodies which Tradition, not without a basis in Sacred Scripture,4 has since ancient times called taxeis (Greek) or ordines. and so the liturgy speaks of the ordo episcoporum, the ordo presbyterorum, …
City of God · 2 passages
Chapter 22.—Of Abraham’s Overcoming the Enemies of Sodom, When He Delivered Lot from Captivity and Was Blessed by Melchizedek the Priest. Having received this oracle of promise, Abraham migrated, and remained in another place of the same land, that is, beside the oak of Mamre, which was Hebron. Then on the invasion of Sodom, when five kings carried on war against four, and Lot …
Chapter 17.—Of Those Things in the 110th Psalm Which Relate to the Priesthood of Christ, and in the 22d to His Passion. Just as in that psalm also where Christ is most openly proclaimed as Priest, even as He is here as King, “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.”10911091 Ps. cx. 1. That Christ sits on the right hand of…
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand. This Psalm is cited by Christ himself to prove that the Messiah is more than merely David's son — he is David's Lord. It speaks of the kingly priesthood of Christ after the order of Melchizedek, a priesthood superior to the Levitical order. The declaration "Sit thou at my right hand" is the most frequently quoted Old Testam…
'The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.' See Ps. cx. 1 and Matt. xxii. 44 and Acts ii. 34-35 and Heb. i. 13. David in spirit calls Him Lord, of whom he was himself the father according to the flesh. See Matt. xxii. 43-45. Therefore Christ is both David's Lord and David's Son: David's Son according to the flesh, David's L…

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 15:11 — It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
  • Deut 18:18 — I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
  • Exod 40:15 — And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their gen
  • Gen 14:18 — And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
  • Gen 14:18 — And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
  • Heb 3:1 — Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
  • Heb 5:6 — As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 5:6 — As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 6:13 — For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
  • Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
  • Heb 6:18 — That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
  • Heb 6:20 — Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 7:11 — If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and no
  • Heb 7:15 — And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
  • Heb 7:17 — For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 7:17 — For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 7:21 — (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
  • Heb 7:21 — (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
  • Heb 7:28 — For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
  • Heb 7:28 — For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
  • Isa 14:24 — The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
  • John 12:34 — The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
  • Num 23:19 — God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
  • Ps 89:34 — My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
  • Ps 89:35 — Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
  • Ps 132:11 — The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
  • Ps 132:11 — The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
  • Rev 1:6 — And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Rev 11:15 — And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
  • Zech 6:13 — Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between the
  • Zech 6:13 — Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between the