Genesis - Chapter 14

In Genesis 14 there is the brief meeting between Abraham and Melchizadek.

Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High.  And he blessed him and said:

“Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

And he gave him a tithe of all.

This is interesting for several reasons: firstly, Melchizadek is a priest, but not a levitical priest as introduced later in the time of Moses; secondly, he gives Moses bread and wine, which make us think of Jesus and his words at the last supper; and thirdly, the writer of the letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament,  in Chapters 6 and 7 explains how Melchizadek links to Jesus. In Hebrews we read the following:

Jesus has become a high priest for ever, in the order of Melchizedek. This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means ‘king of righteousness’; then also, ‘king of Salem’ means ‘king of peace’. Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest for ever. Just think how great he was: even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder!  

And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. For it is declared [in Psalm 110]:  ‘You are a priest for ever, in the order of Melchizedek.’