Melchizedek in the Dead Sea scrolls… (Posted on: 24th February 2009 By: Brent Kercheville) “One of the fascinating things I found from reading the Dead Sea Scrolls is the number of references to Melchizedek. There are 11 mentions of Melchizedek in the scrolls, a curiosity due to the limited information given about him in Genesis 14. Understanding how the Jews thought of Melchizedek colors our understanding of what the writer of...

“…Jesus said unto him,…. Directly, without taking time to think of it; and though he knew with what design it was put to him, yet, as an answer to it might be useful and instructive to the people, as well as silence and confound his adversaries, he thought fit to give one; and is as follows, being what is expressed in Deuteronomy 6:5. thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy...

Richard Dawkins: “The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousand of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so… In a...

…Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible: “Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah,…. Who though he had been out in quest of David, yet was now returned to Gibeah, the place of his residence, and where he kept his court; and hither came the Ziphites, the inhabitants of Ziph, in the wilderness of which David hid himself, with a proposal to deliver him to Saul; for though they were of the same tribe with David, yet being...

“Matthew 22:15. That they might entrap him in his words. The Pharisees, perceiving that all their other attempts against Christ had been fruitless, at length concluded that the best and most expeditious method of destroying him was, to deliver him to the governor, as a seditious person and a disturber of the peace. There was at that time, as we have seen under another passage, [59] a great disputing among the Jews about the tribute-money;...