Psalm 135:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day.

Malachi 3:17

“They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

Psalm 105:6

O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Deuteronomy 26:18

and the Lord has declared this day concerning you that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

Jeremiah 51:19

Not like these is he who 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.