Morning! I was reading Hebrew 7:1-2 where it says Melchizedek is the king of Salem, which means king of peace. When I read Genesis 14:18, the footnote says Salem means Jerusalem. That means Jerusalem = Peace right?
I did a search and found this by Jeff A. Benner:
The place name Jerusalem (pronounced yerushalaim in Hebrew) is a combination of two words. The first is yeru meaning “flow”. This word has several applications such as the flowing of water in a river, the throwing of something as being flowed out of the hand or as the flowing of a finger in the sense of pointing out the way one should go. This last use is the use in the name yerushalaim. The shalayim is from the word shalam meaning complete and whole (the word Shalom is also derived from shalam, while it is usually translated as peace it more means to be complete or whole). When these two words are put together they mean something like “pointing the way to completeness”.
So Shalom to all. For it was in Jerusalem that the Lord Jesus was sacrificed and that brought wholeness and completeness to sinners like us.
So let us not keep this secret to ourselves. But share freely and boldly to the people around us.
They need Jesus.