Romans 11:1

I ask, therefore, has Hashem repudiated His people? Not at all! Chas v'shalom! For I too am a ben Yisroel, of the zera Avraham (seed of Avraham Avinu), of the tribe of Binyamin.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

In Context

2Hashem has not repudiated His people whom He foreknew. + 11:2 Ps 94:14; Ro 8:29 Or do you not have da'as what the Kitvei Hakodesh says in the section about Eliyahu HaNavi, how he appeals to Hashem against Yisroel?

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Cross References

1 Samuel 12:22For Hashem will not forsake His people for the sake of Shmo Hagedol; because it hath pleased Hashem to make you His people.

Psalms 77:7I called to remembrance my neginah balailah (song in the night); 1 I communed with mine own lev; 1 and my ruach pondered with diligent search. 1

Psalms 94:14For Hashem will not cast off His people, 1 neither will He forsake His nachalah. 1

Jeremiah 33:24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two mishpekhot which Hashem hath chosen, He hath even cast them off? Thus they have despised My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Amos 9:8Hinei, the eyes of Adonoi Hashem 1 are upon the mamlachah hachatta'ah, 1 and I will destroy it from off the face of ha'aretz; 1 nevertheless I will not utterly destroy Bais Ya'akov, saith Hashem. 1

Acts 26:4All the Yehudim have da'as of my Yiddishkeit from my earliest youth, a life spent from the beginning among my own people and in Yerushalayim.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:1

The apostle, having reconciled that great truth of the rejection of the Jews with the promise made unto the fathers, is, in this chapter, further labouring to mollify the harshness of it, and to reconcile it to the divine goodness in general. It might be said, "Hath God then cast away his people?" The apostles therefore sets himself, in this chapter, to make a reply to this objection, and that two ways:—I. He shows at large what the mercy is that is mixed with this wrath, ver. 1-32 . II. He infers thence the… Read the whole commentary →

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