Zechariah 2:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

Esther 6:13

When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

Psalm 105:15

saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:

Psalm 132:14

“This is my resting place forever; here I will reside, for I have desired it.

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

Psalm 82:8

Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations belong to you!

Isaiah 14:1

But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 17:14

At evening time, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who despoil us and the lot of those who plunder us.

Isaiah 41:9

you whom I took from the ends of the earth and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant; I have chosen you and not cast you off”;

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 30:16

Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.

Jeremiah 51:19

Not like these is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.

Zechariah 1:17

Proclaim further: Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 3:2

And the Lord said to the accuser, “The Lord rebuke you, O accuser! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this man a brand plucked from the fire?”

Deuteronomy 32:10

He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy 32:9

the Lord’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.