From Nave’s Topical Bible
Birthright
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 21Passages listed
- 12Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Belonged to the first bornDeuteronomy 21:15Deuteronomy 21:16
- Entitled the firstborn to a double portion of inheritanceDeuteronomy 21:15–17
- Royal succession2 Chronicles 21:3
- An honorable titleExodus 4:22Psalms 89:27Jeremiah 31:9Romans 8:29Colossians 1:15Hebrews 1:6Hebrews 12:23Revelation 1:5
- Sold by Esau with 25:33Genesis 25:29–34Genesis 27:36Hebrews 12:16Romans 9:12Romans 9:13
- Forfeited by Reuben1 Chronicles 5:11 Chronicles 5:2
- Set aside
- That of ManassehGenesis 48:15–20
- Adonijah1 Kings 2:15
- Hosah's son1 Chronicles 26:10
- See Firstborn
The passages, in Bible order (21)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 25:29–34
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Commentary on Genesis 25:29–341 voice
And Jacob sod pottage,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 27:36
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
Commentary on Genesis 27:361 voice
(Verse 36.) And Esau said, rightly is his name called Jacob: for he hath supplanted me these two times. Jacob is interpreted supplanter. And therefore, because he had deceived his brother by art, he alluded to the name. Therefore, he was called Jacob before, because he had taken hold of his brother's heel in his birth.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- Genesis 48:15–20
Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
Commentary on Genesis 48:15–201 voice
And he blessed Joseph,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 4:22
Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
Commentary on Exodus 4:221 voice
Why too does he blame Pharaoh, saying, "You will not let my people go; behold, I will smite all the firstborn in Egypt, even your firstborn," and all the rest that is recorded as being said by God through Moses to Pharaoh? It is incumbent on him who believes that the Scriptures are true and that God is just, if he is a thoughtful man, to take pains to show how God, in using such expressions as these, can be clearly conceived to be just.
Origen of Alexandria· ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.1.9, 253Patristic
- Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:151 voice
And inasmuch as my discourse took as a proof of its assertion that passage in the Book of Deuteronomy which speaks of the man who had two wives, one beloved and the other hated, you seem to have felt much concern lest any one should suppose this man had taken to himself two souls, which is impossible.
Ambrose of Milan· Letters 31-40, 397Patristic
- Deuteronomy 21:16
when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 21:161 voice
Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 2:15
“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
Commentary on 1 Kings 2:151 voice
And he said, thou knowest that the kingdom was mine,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Chronicles 5:1
These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. Though he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. So he is not reckoned according to birthright.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 5:11 voice
Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Chronicles 5:2
And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 5:21 voice
For Judah prevailed above his brethren,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Chronicles 26:10
Hosah the Merarite also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),
Commentary on 1 Chronicles 26:101 voice
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons,.... Who was a fellow porter of Obededom's at the ark, 1Ch 16:38. Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief); the firstborn being unfit for service, either through want of an intellectual capacity, or of strength of body, or through some defect or another; according to the Syriac version, he was dead; so some understand the words, he, the father, had no firstborn remaining or living.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Chronicles 21:3
Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and precious things, as well as the fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 21:31 voice
And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 89:27
I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Commentary on Psalms 89:271 voice
Also I will make him my firstborn,.... Or, "make him the firstborn"; make him great, as Jarchi interprets it; give him the blessing, the double portion of inheritance: so Christ is made most blessed for ever, and has all spiritual blessings in his hands; and is heir of all things, and his people joint-heirs with him.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:91 voice
(Verse 9) In their weeping they will come (or go); I will lead them in mercy, and bring them by the torrents of water in a straight path, and they will not stumble (or wander) in it. For I have become the father of Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. If we read according to the Hebrew, they will come in weeping: for this indicates Job (); we will say that sometimes, the weeping of excessive joy is a sign, according to that: I weep with joy.
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
- Romans 8:29
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Romans 9:12
not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
Commentary on Romans 9:121 voice
One was chosen and loved, and the other hated, so that everything might be the work of God and of His election and foreknowledge, and not from works, but from Him who calls.
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on Romans, 1107Patristic