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"THE APPOINTED TIMES" 61
ter of this Bible record says : "For this Melchizedek,
king of Salem, priest of the Most High God,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter
of the kings and blessed him and to whom Abraham
apportioned a tenth from all things, is first of
all, by translation, King of righteousness,' and is
then also king of Salem, that is, King of peace .'
In being fatherless, motherless, without genealogy,
having neither a beginning of days nor an
end of life, but having been made like the Son of
God, he remains a priest perpetually. Behold,
then, how great this man was to whom Abraham,
the family head, gave a tenth out of the chief
spoils ."-Hebrews 7 :1-4, NW .
4 The Israelite descendants of Abraham, under
Moses' successor Joshua, crossed the Jordan river
by Jehovah's miracle and entered the Promised
Land of "milk and honey" . There they destroyed
thirty-one of the local kings, after which the
land was distributed by lot to the twelve tribes
of Israel. The tribe of Levi, as a sort of thirteenth
tribe, was dedicated to Jehovah's service
at his tabernacle or temple. Jehovah set up
over them a Theocratic government. That is to
say, God was their invisible Ruler or King . But
the Israelites neglected to clear out all the heathen
kings from the Promised Land and frequently
they fell away from the worship of the only true
God to worshiping the idol and demon gods of
their tolerated heathen neighbors . Resisting no
longer the desire to copy their untheocratic neigh-
4 . What kind of government did Israel get? What did
they request?