Genesis 14:20 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 14:20

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

BSB

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ASV

and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.

KJV

And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And he gave him tithes - A tenth part of all the spoils he had taken from the confederate kings. These Abram gave as a tribute to the most high God, who, being the possessor of heaven and earth, dispenses all spiritual and temporal favors, and demands the gratitude, and submissive, loving obedience, of all his subjects. Almost all nations of the earth have agreed in giving a tenth part of their property to be employed in religious uses.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(3.) We ought to give thanks for others' mercies as for our own, triumphing with those that triumph. (4.) Jesus Christ, our great high priest, is the Mediator both of our prayers and praises, and not only offers up ours, but his own for us. What was done to him: Abram gave him tithes of all, that is, of the spoils, Heb. vii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 589: “Jesus Meeting His Warriors” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1864)

What a splendid type is Abram, in the narrative before us, of our Lord Jesus Christ! Let us read this story of Abram in connection with our Savior and see how full of meaning it is. Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the abundance of His love, had taken us to be His brothers. But we, through our sin, had gone into the land of Sodom and Jesus Christ dwelt alone in His safety and His happiness, enjoying the Presence of God. The hosts of our enemies, with terrible force and cruel fury, carried us away captives.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבָרוּךְ֙	u.va.ruKh	and [be] blessed	H1288 →
אֵ֣ל	'el	God	H410 →
עֶלְי֔וֹן	el.Yon	Most High	H5945 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
מִגֵּ֥ן	mi.Gen	he has delivered	H4042 →
צָרֶ֖יךָ	tza.Rei.kha	opponents your	H6862 →
בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ	be.ya.De.kha	in hand your	H3027 →
וַיִּתֶּן־	vai.yi.ten-	and he gave	H5414 →
ל֥וֹ	lo	to <the> him
מַעֲשֵׂ֖ר	ma.'a.Ser	a tenth	H4643 →
מִכֹּֽל׃	mi.Kol	from everything	H3605 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 9:6–8
  Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Matthew 6:33
  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Proverbs 3:9–10
  Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- Psalms 37:3
  Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
- Deuteronomy 28:12
  The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow…
Through
Genesis 28:22
And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
leads to
- Genesis 35:7
  There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
- Deuteronomy 14:22–23
  You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
- Leviticus 27:30–33
  Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

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