1 Kings 8:53

New Century Version

You chose them from all the nations on earth to be your very own people. This is what you promised through Moses your servant when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, Lord God.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:19

I am one of the peaceful, loyal people of Israel. You are trying to destroy an important city of Israel. Why must you destroy what belongs to the Lord?”

Exodus 33:16

If you don’t go with us, no one will know that you are pleased with me and with your people. These people and I will be no different from any other people on earth.”

Jeremiah 10:16

But God, who is Jacob’s Portion, is not like the idols. He made everything, and he chose Israel to be his special people. The Lord All-Powerful is his name.

Numbers 23:9

I see them from the top of the mountains; I see them from the hills. I see a people who live alone, who think they are different from other nations.

Ephesians 1:18

I pray also that you will have greater understanding in your heart so you will know the hope to which he has called us and that you will know how rich and glorious are the blessings God has promised his holy people.

Deuteronomy 14:2

You are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.

Deuteronomy 32:9

The Lord took his people as his share, the people of Jacob as his very own.

Deuteronomy 4:34

No other god has ever taken for himself one nation out of another. But the Lord your God did this for you in Egypt, right before your own eyes. He did it with tests, signs, miracles, war, and great sights, by his great power and strength.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us so he might pay the price to free us from all evil and to make us pure people who belong only to him—people who are always wanting to do good deeds.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession. You were chosen to tell about the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.