After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High. (Gen 14,17-18)

The king of Sodom went out to meet Abram after the battle, but it was not just a friendly meeting - Abram set the Sodom´s inhabitants and their property free. Now the domestic king comes to Abram the stranger in the position of a poor man, bound and given at his mercy to ask him for his people.

Suddenly, another king, Melchisedek, appears. King of Salem, who is also a priest - this was only possible in the ancient tribal communities, later on the two roles were divided. This only proves the reason why Abram had to leave his family and homeland with the acceptance of the new God. The deity was so connected to the tribe that its member was not in a position of free choice, what he would believe; he had to submit.

However, this Melchisedek is a strange phenomenon: he is "a priest of the Most High God." Abram must have been amazed: so far he thought that he was the only worshiper of the Lord in the land. And now the priest of his new God is coming to meet him? Where did he come from, where did he learn about his God?

Because we have the New Testament, we know who this priest really was: "This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.” Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever." (Heb 7,1-3)

Abram experiences an ever-increasing revelation of God as he now meets the Son of God in the form of the Prince of Peace - King of Shalom (Salem). He came to meet him to bring his shalom (peace) into his troubled soul after the fight, the sovereign peace of God, which "exceeds every thought" (Philippians 4:7).

It is Him who possess and rules with this peace (Isaiah 9:5).