Adoption

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningGenesis 15:3
• OF CHILDREN. INSTANCES OF
• Of Joseph's sonsGenesis 48:5Genesis 48:14Genesis 48:16Genesis 48:22
• Of MosesExodus 2:5–10Acts 7:21Hebrews 11:24
• Of EstherEsther 2:7
• SPIRITUALExodus 4:22Exodus 4:23Numbers 6:27Deuteronomy 14:1Deuteronomy 26:18Deuteronomy 27:9Deuteronomy 28:10Deuteronomy 32:5Deuteronomy 32:62 Samuel 7:141 Chronicles 22:101 Chronicles 28:62 Chronicles 7:14Proverbs 14:26Isaiah 8:18Isaiah 43:6Isaiah 43:7Isaiah 63:8Isaiah 63:16Jeremiah 3:19
• TYPIFIED, in IsraelExodus 4:22
• See God, Fatherhood of
• See Righteous, Union of, with Christ

The passages, in Bible order (66)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 15:3

   Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

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   “But this man could have become his son only by adoption; and how sadly would that have come short of the parental hopes he had been encouraged to entertain! His language betrayed a latent spirit of fretfulness or perhaps a temporary failure in the very virtue for which he is so renowned--and absolute submission to God's time, as well as way, of accomplishing His promise.

   “Behold to me thou hast given no seed - Not only no son, but no seed. If he had had a daughter, from her the promised Messias might have come, who was to be the Seed of the Woman; but he had neither son nor daughter.

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2. Genesis 48:5

   And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 48:51 voice

   “The reasons for this procedure are stated (1Ch 5:1, 2). are mine--Though their connections might have attached them to Egypt and opened to them brilliant prospects in the land of their nativity, they willingly accepted the adoption (Heb 11:25).

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3. Genesis 48:14

   But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 48:141 voice

   “Israel stretched out his right hand, etc. - Laying hands on the head was always used among the Jews in giving blessings, designating men to any office, and in the consecration of solemn sacrifices. This is the first time we find it mentioned; but we often read of it afterwards.

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4. Genesis 48:16

   the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 48:162 voices

   “The Angel which redeemed me from all evil - המלאך הגאל hammalac haggoel. The Messenger, the Redeemer or Kinsman; for so גאל goel signifies; for this term, in the law of Moses, is applied to that person whose right it is, from his being nearest akin, to redeem or purchase back a forfeited inheritance. But of whom does Jacob speak?

   “Note, Those are worthy of double honour who, through God's grace, break through the temptations of worldly wealth and preferment, to embrace religion in disgrace and poverty. Jacob will have Ephraim and Manasseh to believe that it is better to be low and in the church than high and out of it, to be called by the name of poor Jacob than to be called by the name of rich Joseph.

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5. Genesis 48:22

   And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 48:222 voices

   “(Verse 22.) And I gave ((Or, do)) to you Sicima, the special one, over your brothers, which I received from the hands of the Amorites with my sword and arrow. Sicima, according to Greek and Latin custom, is declined. Otherwise, in Hebrew it is called Sichem, as John the Evangelist also testifies (IV, 5): although erroneously, it is read as Sichar, the error has prevailed: and now it is the city of Neapolis, the city of the Samaritans.

   “Moreover I have given to thee one portion - שכם אחד shechem achad, one shechem or one shoulder. We have already seen the transactions between Jacob and his family on one part, and Shechem and the sons of Hamor on the other.

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6. Exodus 2:5–10

   Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 2:5–102 voices

   The water was there fenced off as a protection from the crocodiles; and doubtless the princess had an enclosure reserved for her own use, the road to which seems to have been well known to Jochebed. walked along--in procession or in file. she sent her maid--her immediate attendant. The term is different from that rendered "maidens."

   “The traditions which give a name to the daughter of Pharaoh are merely conjectural. Egyptian princesses held a very high and almost independent position under the ancient and middle empire, with a separate household and numerous officials. This was especially the case with the daughters of the first sovereigns of the 18th Dynasty.

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7. Exodus 4:22

   Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,

   ›Commentary on Exodus 4:221 voice

   “My firstborn - The expression would be perfectly intelligible to Pharaoh, whose official designation was “son of Ra.” In numberless inscriptions the Pharaohs are styled “own sons” or “beloved sons” of the deity. It is here applied for the first time to Israel; and as we learn from Exo 4:23, emphatically in antithesis to Pharaoh’s own firstborn.

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8. Exodus 4:23

   and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”

   ›Commentary on Exodus 4:231 voice

   “Let my son go, that he may serve me - Which they could not do in Goshen, consistently with the policy and religious worship of the Egyptians; because the most essential part of an Israelite’s worship consisted in sacrifice, and the animals which they offered to God were sacred among the Egyptians. Moses gives Pharaoh this reason Exo 8:26. I will slay thy son, even thy first-born - Which, on Pharaoh’s utter refusal to let the people go, was accordingly done; see Exo 12:29.

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9. Numbers 6:27

   So they shall put My name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

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   “Put my name - Shall call them by my name, shall recommend them to me as my own people, and bless them and pray unto me for them as such; which is a powerful argument to prevail with God for them.

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10. Deuteronomy 14:1

    You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:11 voice

    “Make any baldness between your eyes - i. e. by shaving the forepart of the head and the eyebrows. The practices named in this verse were common among the pagan, and seem to be forbidden, not only because such wild excesses of grief (compare 1Ki 18:28) would be inconsistent in those who as children of a heavenly Father had prospects beyond this world, but also because these usages themselves arose out of idolatrous notions.

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11. Deuteronomy 26:18

    And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 26:181 voice

    “These are evidently symbolic—hands, of action; heart, of deliberation; mouth, of speech. There is an excellent text on the subject of the penitent: "You have chosen God today to be your God, and the Lord has chosen you today to be his people." God makes his own the person who is eager to serve truth and reality and comes as a suppliant. Even if he is only one in number, he is honored on equal terms with the whole people. He is a part of the people.

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12. Deuteronomy 27:9

    Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:91 voice

    “It was to be done but once, and at their entrance into the land of promise, in token of their taking possession of it under the several provisos and conditions contained in this law. There was a solemn ratification of the covenant between God and Israel at Mount Sinai, when an altar was erected, with twelve pillars, and the book of the covenant was produced, Exod. xxiv.

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13. Deuteronomy 28:10

    Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

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14. Deuteronomy 32:5

    His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

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    “They have corrupted themselves--that is, the Israelites by their frequent lapses and their inveterate attachment to idolatry. their spot is not the spot of his children--This is an allusion to the marks which idolaters inscribe on their foreheads or their arms with paint or other substances, in various colors and forms--straight, oval, or circular, according to the favorite idol of their worship.

    “Their spot is not the spot of his children - This verse is variously translated and variously understood. They are corrupted, not his, children of pollution - Kennicott. They are corrupt, they are not his children, they are blotted - Houbigant. This is according to the Samaritan.

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15. Deuteronomy 32:6

    Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:61 voice

    “But if the Lord himself is Creator of all things, we must consider in what manner he is said "to have acquired" what is without doubt his own. It is said also in another song in Deuteronomy: "Is not he himself your God who made you and created you and acquired you?" For each one appears to acquire that which was not his own. Indeed, on this basis the heretics also say of the Savior that he "acquired" those who were not his; for with the price which was paid he purchased men whom the Creator had made.

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16. 2 Samuel 7:14

    I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

    ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:142 voices

    “I will be his father, and he shall be my son,.... That is, I will be as kind unto him, and careful of him, as a father of a son; or he shall be, and appear to be my son, by adopting grace, as no doubt Solomon was, notwithstanding all his failings.

    “If he commit iniquity - Depart from the holy commandment delivered to him; I will chasten him with the rod of men-he shall have affliction, but his government shall not be utterly subverted. But this has a higher meaning. See the observations at the end, 2Sa 7:25 (note).

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