2 Corinthians 11:22 BSB

2 Corinthians 11:22

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

KJV

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Are they Hebrews - Speaking the sacred language, and reading in the congregation from the Hebrew Scriptures? the same is my own language. Are they Israelites - Regularly descended from Jacob, and not from Esau? I am also one. Are they the seed of Abraham - Circumcised, and in the bond of the covenant? So am I. I am no proselyte, but I am a Hebrew of the Hebrews both by father and mother; and can trace my genealogy, through the tribe of Benjamin, up to the father of the faithful.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3091: “Pedigree” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1908)

PAUL was proud of his extraction as a Jew. Taking this expression in its literal sense, I feel that he had much to be proud of. Judah's banner must not rank second among the nations. The nation of Israel is most ancient and most honorable. When as yet Greece and Rome were not known, God had brought forth His people out of Egypt "with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm," and had cast out Amorite and Perizzite to make room for the vine which He had brought out of Egypt.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἑβραῖοί	Hebraioi	Hebrews	G1445 →
εἰσιν;	eisin	are they?	G1510 →
κἀγώ·	kagō	I myself also;	G1473 →G2532 →
Ἰσραηλῖταί	Israēlitai	Israelites	G2475 →
εἰσιν;	eisin	are they?	G1510 →
κἀγώ·	kagō	I myself also;	G1473 →G2532 →
σπέρμα	sperma	Descendants	G4690 →
Ἀβραάμ	Abraam	of Abraham	G11 →
εἰσιν;	eisin	are they?	G1510 →
κἀγώ·	kagō	I myself also;	G1473 →G2532 →

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 11:1
I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 12:22
  Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
- Jeremiah 33:24–26
  “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Philippians 3:5
  circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
- Acts 26:4
  Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from the earliest days of my youth, among my own people and in Jerusalem.
Through
Romans 9:4
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:12
  remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Psalms 147:19
  He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
- Genesis 17:2
  I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
- Romans 9:6
  It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.