This seems to be borrowed from 2Ch_19:7, and Deu_10:17. You have the same again, Act_10:34: see Job_34:19Gal_2:6 3:28 Eph_6:91Pe_1:17. Obj. God loved Jacob, and hated Esau, when they were yet unborn, and had done neither good nor evil.
Answer. This was not properly a respecting of persons, because God did not this as a judge, but as an elector: so the apostle states it, Rom_9:11-13. God is gracious to whom he will be gracious, and may do what he will with his own.