Romans 11:10

let their eyes be blinded, that they may not see, and bow down their back continually.”

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

In Context

9And David saith, “Let their table be for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompence unto them:

11I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid: but by their stumbling salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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Cross References

Romans 1:21because though they knew there was a God, they glorified him not as God, nor gave him thanks, but became triflers in their disputations, and their stupid heart was darkened.

Ephesians 4:18darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

2 Peter 2:17These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a hurricane; for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved.

Jude 1:13raging billows of the sea foaming out their own infamies; stars wandering from their courses, for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved.

Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33

The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 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. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →

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