לְדָוִ֗ד מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר נְאֻ֤ם יְהוָ֨ה ׀ לַֽאדֹנִ֗י שֵׁ֥ב לִֽימִינִ֑י עַד־אָשִׁ֥ית אֹ֝יְבֶ֗יךָ הֲדֹ֣ם לְרַגְלֶֽיךָ׃
Mazmur Daud. Firman Yang Mahakekal kepada tuanku: “Duduklah di sebelah kanan-Ku, sampai Aku menjadikan musuh-musuhmu tumpuan kakimu.”
Radak
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: In Thy presence is fulness of joy: At Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore: – (To be understood) as a prayer that God may teach him the way by which he may attain to the life of the world to come; meaning, that He will make him understand and discern the way in which the soul shall live when it is separated from the body and attain to fulness of joy in Thy presence and to pleasures at Thy right hand; for those joys and pleasures will be for evermore, for all eternity, and to them there shall be no end; and this is the soul's delight. The reason (for using the expressions) in Thy presence and at Thy right hand is: that the “presence” and “the right hand” are the Glory, as, “the upright shall dwell in Thy presence” (Ps. 140:14); and so it is written of the right hand (ibid. ex. 1): “Sit thou at My right hand.”
Rabbeinu Bahya
ויברכהו ויאמר ברוך אברם לקל עליון קונה שמים וארץ, וברוך קל עליון, “Blessed be Avram to the Supreme G’d who owns heaven and earth, and blessed be the Supreme G’d, etc.” Malki Tzedek first blessed Avram and only then did he bless G’d. He was guilty of a sin by doing so. He should first have blessed G’d just as David did in a similar situation in Samuel I 25, 32-33. David first blessed G’d before he blessed Avigail who had prevented him from becoming guilty of bloodshed. Malki Tzedek was punished for this lack of respect for G’d by losing his position of High Priest. This position was accorded to Avraham instead as is recorded in Nedarim 32. A reference to this is found in Psalms 110,1 נאם ה' לאדני שב לימיני where the man who is described as sitting on G’d’s right hand side is understood to be Avraham. He is the only person to whom David ever referred as אדני, “my master.” David considered Avraham as his personal patriarch. In verse 4 of the same Psalm David says: נשבע ה' ולא ינחם אתה כהן לעולם על דברתי מלכי צדק, “The Lord has sworn and will not relent, you are a priest forever, because of what I have said, taking the place of Malki Tzedek.” It had been inadmissible to praise someone of flesh and blood before praising the Eternal.
When Yehudah was about to condemn Tamar, Malki Tzedek’s daughter to death by burning (Genesis 38,24), he had not been aware that G’d had already removed the priesthood from Malki Tzedek [so that death by burning would not have been applicable to his daughter according to Jewish law even if she had been guilty of harlotry. Ed.]
When Yehudah was about to condemn Tamar, Malki Tzedek’s daughter to death by burning (Genesis 38,24), he had not been aware that G’d had already removed the priesthood from Malki Tzedek [so that death by burning would not have been applicable to his daughter according to Jewish law even if she had been guilty of harlotry. Ed.]