“and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.”
Genesis 14:20
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- Who Is Melchizedek? The Priest-King Who Blesses Abram (Genesis 14)
Why did Abram give a tenth, then refuse a fortune?
Melchizedek had just blessed Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. Abram answered in two ways: he honoured God with a tenth of everything, and he refused the king of Sodom's goods so no one could say a man had made him rich.
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Melchizedek names where Abram's victory came from: "God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram had fought for someone else, free to spend himself because he already knew what God had promised him.
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