Romans 9:13 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 9:13

So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

KJV

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

As it is written - Mal 1:2-3. That is, the distribution of favors is on the principle advanced by the prophet, and is in accordance with the declaration that God had in fact loved the one and hated the other. Jacob - This refers, doubtless, to the posterity of Jacob. Have I loved - I have shown affection for that people; I have bestowed on them great privileges and blessings, as proofs of attachment. I have preferred Jacob to Esau. Esau - The descendants of Esau, the Edomites; see Mal 1:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Nor does it relate to the eternal state either of them or their posterity. Thus far the apostle has been proving his proposition, namely, that the exclusion of a great part of the seed of Abraham, yea, and of Isaac, from the special promises of God, was so far from being impossible, that, according to the scriptures themselves, it had actually happened.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

As God chose Isaac and Jacob, and rejected Ishmael and Esau, so he might and did choose faith to be the condition of salvation and reject the works of the law. Thus Arminius understands it, De rejectis et assumptis talibus, certa qualitate notatis--Concerning such as are rejected and such as are chosen, being distinguished by appropriate qualities; so John Goodwin.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

And not only this; but when Rebecca, &c.--It might be thought that there was a natural reason for preferring the child of Sarah, as being Abraham's true and first wife, both to the child of Hagar, Sarah's maid, and to the children of Keturah, his second wife.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καθὼς	kathōs	Even as	G2531 →
γέγραπται·	gegraptai	it has been written:	G1125 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰακὼβ	Iakōb	Jacob	G2384 →
ἠγάπησα,	ēgapēsa	I loved,	G25 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	but	G1161 →
Ἠσαῦ	Ēsau	Esau	G2269 →
ἐμίσησα.¶	emisēsa	I hated.	G3404 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
leads to
- Matthew 10:37
  Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- John 12:25
  Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
- Philippians 3:8
  More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may…
- Acts 20:24
  But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good…
- Psalms 73:25–26
  Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
Through
Genesis 29:31
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:21
  So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
- Psalms 127:3
  Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Through
Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
leads to
- Genesis 29:33
  Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.