1 Kings 8:53

Bible in Basic English 1965

For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:19

Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

Exodus 33:16

For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

Jeremiah 10:16

The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

Numbers 23:9

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

Ephesians 1:18

And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

Titus 2:14

Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.