Genesis 14:20-24

Abram Blessed by Melchizedek

20 and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!"
And Abram gave him y a tenth of everything.
21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself." 22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, z "I have lifted my hand 1 to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth, 23 that a I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.' 24 I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let b Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share."

  1. Cross References
    Hebrews 7:4
    See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
    Genesis 28:22
    And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 6:8
    I will bring you into the land that I swore to ...
    Numbers 14:30
    Not one shall come into the land where I swore ...
    Deuteronomy 32:40
    For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I...
    Ezekiel 20:5 - 6
    And say to them, Thus says the Lord God : On th...
    Ezekiel 20:15
    Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
    Ezekiel 20:23
    Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
    Ezekiel 20:28
    For when I had brought them into the land that ...
    Daniel 12:7
    And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was a...
    Revelation 10:5 - 6
    And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea an...
  3. Cross References
    Esther 9:15 - 16
    The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 14:13
    Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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