Psalm 135:4

A Conservative Version

For LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Only LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples as at this day.

Malachi 3:17

And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Isaiah 41:8

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Psalm 105:6

O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

1 Samuel 12:22

For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For LORD's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And LORD has avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised thee, and that thou should keep all his commandments,

Jeremiah 51:19

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things, and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.