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;
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Gill's Exposition
Whose are the fathers,.... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for, according to the (a) Jewish writers,
"they call none in Israel "fathers", but three, and they are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and they call…
Barnes' Notes
Who are Israelites - Descended from Israel, or Jacob; honored by having such an ancestor, and by bearing a name so distinguished as that of his descendants. It was formerly the honorable appellation…
Adam Clarke
Who are Israelites - Descendants of Jacob, a man so highly favored of God, and from whom he received his name Israel - a prince of God, Gen 32:28; from which name his descendants were called…
Cambridge Bible
Israelites "The absolute name, that which expressed the whole dignity and glory of a member of the theocratic nation, of the people in peculiar covenant with God, was Israelite." (Abp Trench, New…
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