希伯来书 7:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為這些話所指的那位，原是屬於另外一個支派的，這支派向來沒有人在祭壇前供職。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 这 话 所 指 的 人 本 属 别 的 支 派 ， 那 支 派 里 从 来 没 有 一 人 伺 候 祭 坛 。

Contextual Overview

¹¹ The people were given the law concerning the system of priests from the tribe of Levi, but they could not be made perfect through that system. So there was a need for another priest to come, a priest like Melchizedek, not Aaron. ¹² And when a different kind of priest comes, the law must be changed, too. ¹³ We are saying these things about Christ, who belonged to a different tribe. No one from that tribe ever served as a priest at the altar. ¹⁴ It is clear that our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests belonging to that tribe. ¹⁵ And this becomes even more clear when we see that another priest comes who is like Melchizedek. ¹⁶ He was not made a priest by human rules and laws but through the power of his life, which continues forever. ¹⁷ It is said about him, "You are a priest forever, a priest like Melchizedek." Psalm 110:4 ¹⁸ The old rule is now set aside, because it was weak and useless. ¹⁹ The law of Moses could not make anything perfect. But now a better hope has been given to us, and with this hope we can come near to God. ²⁰ It is important that God did this with an oath. Others became priests without an oath,

Bible Verse Review
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of which: Numbers 16:40, Numbers 17:5, 2 Chronicles 26:16-21

Reciprocal: Joel 1:13 - ye ministers

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:10
He had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18
But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives will all go into the boat.

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

Genesis 7:2
Take with you seven pairs, each male with its female, of every kind of clean animal, and take one pair, each male with its female, of every kind of unclean animal.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:7
He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:9
came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:18
The water continued to rise, and the boat floated on it above the earth.

Genesis 7:19
The water rose so much that even the highest mountains under the sky were covered by it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he of whom these things are spoken,.... In Psalms 110:4 and in the type of him Melchizedek, in the preceding verses; for not Melchizedek is here meant, but the Lord Jesus Christ, as appears by what follows; the antitype of Melchizedek, the Lord our righteousness, the Prince of peace, the priest of God, that lives for ever, without father, without mother, c.

pertaineth to another tribe the tribe of Judah, and not the tribe of Levi:

of which no man gave attendance at the altar; either of burnt offering or of incense; that is, no man waited there, or took upon him and exercised the priest's office that was of the tribe of Judah: no man might lawfully do it; Uzziah, indeed, thrust himself into the priest's office, who was of that tribe, and went into the temple and burnt incense upon the altar of incense; but then he had no right to do it, and was punished for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he of whom these things are spoken - The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, to whom they had reference. The things here spoken of pertain to his office as priest; his being of the order of Melchizedek. The apostle here “assumes” it as a point concerning which there could be no dispute, that these things referred to the Lord Jesus. Those whom he addressed would not be disposed to call this in question, and his argument had conducted him to this conclusion.

Pertaineth to another tribe - To the tribe of Judah; Hebrews 7:14.

Of which no man gave attendance at the altar - The priestly office pertained only to the tribe of Levi. No one of the tribe of Judah had any part in the performance of the duties of that office. This was settled by the Jewish Law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 7:13. For he of whom these things are spoken — That is, Jesus the Messiah, spoken of in Psalms 110:4, who came, not from the tribe of Levi, but from the tribe of Judah, of which tribe no priest ever ministered at a Jewish altar, nor could minister according to the law.