Romans 9:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

Romans 9:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 25:22-23
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. …
2 Samuel 8:14
And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
1 Kings 22:47
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-13)

The apostle, having made his way to that which he had to say, concerning the rejection of the body of his countrymen, with a protestation of his own affection for them and a concession of their undoubted privileges, comes in these verses, and the following part of the chapter, to prove that the rejection of the Jews, by the establishment of the gospel dispensation, did not at all invalidate the wo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

10-13. 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. But there could be no such reason in the case of Rebecca, Isaac’s only wife; for the choice of her son Jacob was the choice of one of…