Acts 13:17

Modern English Version

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt, and with great power He led them out of it.

Cross References

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His own possession.

Exodus 12:51

And that same day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

Exodus 13:14

“It shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall say to him, ‘With a strong hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Exodus 13:16

It shall be as a sign on your hand and as frontlets on your forehead, for with a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”

Exodus 14:8

The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the Israelites. However, the Israelites went out with confidence.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, for in the matter in which they treated the people insolently, He was above them.”

Isaiah 44:1

Yet now listen, O Jacob, My servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

Amos 2:10

It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Micah 6:4

For I have brought you up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of slaves I have redeemed you; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, treasured above all the nations that are on the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has God ever tried to take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them and personally brought you out of Egypt with His mighty power

Deuteronomy 7:19

the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So the Lord your God will do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1 Samuel 4:8

Woe to us! Who will deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.