Melchisedek

Also known as: the Righteous King · Family: Canaanite · Role: priest and founder of Jerusalem · First appears: Book VI, Chapter 10

Life events

• Melchisedek built Jerusalem, founded its temple, and became its first priest.(Book VI, Chapter 10 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • “But he who first built it was a potent man among the Canaanites, and is in our own tongue called [Melchisedek], the Righteous King, for such he really was; on which account he was [there] the first priest of God, and first built a temple [there], 35 and called the city Jerusalem, which was formerly called Salem.”

Book VI, Chapter 10

• with God (Melchisedek is described as God's first priest.) “on which account he was [there] the first priest of God”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.