Genesis 14
It continues to amaze me how much more we know than what the Bible has recorded. I really doubt that the meeting with Melchizedek took place at the same time as the meeting with the king of Sodom. Abram met with Melchizedek and paid tithes first. At that time he received the High Priesthood from this king of Salem and made covenants with God, including the covenant that he would take nothing from those such as the king of Sodom lest they think they made him rich. When he says he raised his hand, he means that he made a covenant. Afterward he met with the king of Sodom and refused to receive any goods of him as recorded here.
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