Psalms 135:4
For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
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ASV
For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, And Israel for his own possession.
KJV
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself. Jehovah hath chosen Jacob. Should not the sons of Jacob praise him who has so singularly favoured them Election is one of the most forcible arguments for adoring love. Chosen! chosen unto himself!—who can be grateful enough for being concerned in this privilege "Jacob have I loved", said Jehovah, and he gave no reason for his love except that he chose to love. Jacob had then done neither good nor evil, yet thus the Lord determined, and thus he spake.
Israel is God's peculiar treasure above all people ( Exod. xix. 5 ); they are his Segullah, a people appropriated to him, and that he has a delight in, precious in his sight and honourable. For this distinguishing surprising favour, if the seed of Jacob do not praise him, they are the most unworthy ungrateful people under the sun.
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1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
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For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…
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Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their…
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Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
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Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
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Malachi 3:17“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
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Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.