Romans 9:4

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Romans 9:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Are israelites

The adoption

And the glory

Isaiah 60:19

Covenants

The giving

John 1:17

The service

Promises

General references

Luke 15:31

Bible References

Are israelites

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

A Psalm of Asaph.
Surely God is good to Israel,
To those who are pure in heart!

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been borne by Me from birth
And have been carried from the womb;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

The adoption

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

“With weeping they will come,
And by supplication I will lead them;
I will make them walk by streams of waters,
On a straight path in which they will not stumble;
For I am a father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My firstborn.”

When Israel was a youth I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My son.

And the glory

Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, so He spoke to him.

And she called the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.

Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

And gave up His strength to captivity
And His glory into the hand of the adversary.

Let Your work appear to Your servants
And Your majesty to their children.

“No longer will you have the sun for light by day,
Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;
But you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,
And your God for your glory.

Covenants

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

“I will establish My covenant between Me and you,
And I will multiply you exceedingly.”

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

“I have made a covenant with My chosen;
I have sworn to David My servant,

“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

“Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

The giving

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

“Then You came down on Mount Sinai,
And spoke with them from heaven;
You gave them just ordinances and true laws,
Good statutes and commandments.

He declares His words to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.

I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

The service

When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite.

He dug it all around, removed its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a wine vat in it;
Then He expected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a

vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower

, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

Promises

“He has given help to Israel His servant,

In remembrance of His mercy,

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers,

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ,

excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

General references

And he said to him, ‘Son, you have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours.