100 Bible Verses About Chosen People

Bible verses about Chosen People

Exploring the concept of "Chosen People" through scripture is a journey into the heart of God's loving and purposeful plan. Understanding this selection, not as a mark of superiority, but as a call to service and a reflection of God's grace, is essential. It reveals the depth of His commitment to humanity, illustrating how He works through individuals and communities to bring about salvation and restoration. The verses highlighting this theme invite us to examine our own roles within God's grand narrative, prompting us to live with intention, humility, and a profound sense of responsibility towards others, reflecting His love in all we do.

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Numbers 3:49 (KJV)

And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

Chosen by God: Bible Verses & Their Meaning

I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 5:6KJV

Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Psalms 77:15KJV

Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

Deuteronomy 21:8KJV

And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:18KJV

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

Isaiah 41:8KJV

But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

Isaiah 29:23KJV

And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

Leviticus 16:29KJV

In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Leviticus 23:7KJV

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

Numbers 33:51KJV

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

Exodus 12:7KJV

Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

Deuteronomy 11:23KJV

And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

Isaiah 51:16KJV

And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

Psalms 105:24KJV

So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

1 Chronicles 21:14KJV

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 48:2KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Numbers 15:35KJV

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:21KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Exodus 14:1KJV

And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth–maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

Joshua 11:8KJV

And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:

Numbers 3:49KJV

And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

Leviticus 3:5KJV

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

Psalms 12:7KJV

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:1KJV

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Isaiah 51:2KJV

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

Psalms 81:14KJV

Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Isaiah 48:19KJV

Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.

2 Samuel 22:50KJV

And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

Exodus 3:12KJV

And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 10:13KJV

And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part.

Exodus 29:26KJV

And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

Deuteronomy 4:12KJV

And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.

Judges 6:15KJV

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Jeremiah 2:7KJV

And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;

Numbers 28:20KJV

And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,

Exodus 30:27KJV

Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.

Exodus 7:2KJV

The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Psalms 47:9KJV

And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

Judges 7:7KJV

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Psalms 74:1KJV

I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Psalms 18:3KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.

Exodus 17:5KJV

And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136:24KJV

Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

1 Kings 11:13KJV

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Joshua 8:32KJV

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Leviticus 19:26KJV

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

Deuteronomy 9:14KJV

The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

Deuteronomy 7:7KJV

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

Deuteronomy 34:1KJV

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

Isaiah 35:8KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Leviticus 14:1KJV

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Isaiah 16:4KJV

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

2 Samuel 22:11KJV

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

Deuteronomy 16:8KJV

And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

Leviticus 23:15KJV

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Psalms 108:8KJV

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isaiah 24:23KJV

And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

Genesis 25:23KJV

And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:

Genesis 24:42KJV

And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

Exodus 33:15KJV

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

Isaiah 5:3KJV

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.

Isaiah 65:23KJV

Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

1 Kings 8:61KJV

Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.

Psalms 134:1KJV

And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s house.

2 Chronicles 7:2KJV

And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.

2 Chronicles 23:16KJV

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Psalms 89:51KJV

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

1 Kings 6:13KJV

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

Psalms 37:24KJV

And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken;

Isaiah 38:7KJV

And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

Numbers 8:22KJV

And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

Exodus 29:1KJV

Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.

Numbers 3:45KJV

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

Exodus 4:8KJV

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Leviticus 1:4KJV

(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

1 Kings 11:32KJV

O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Psalms 68:35KJV

That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

Isaiah 44:26KJV

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord: it is a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:24KJV

Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

Joshua 19:9KJV

And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

Exodus 9:6KJV

And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:6KJV

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

Deuteronomy 4:37KJV

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:4KJV

And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;

1 Kings 14:8KJV

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord:

Psalms 118:19KJV

But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

Psalms 5:7KJV

So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obed–edom with joy.

1 Chronicles 15:25KJV

And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.

Leviticus 7:9KJV

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Isaiah 9:8KJV

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

Genesis 48:22KJV

And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

Exodus 13:3KJV

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psalms 25:22KJV

But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

Judges 14:4KJV

Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:

1 Chronicles 2:15KJV

And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:

Numbers 29:33KJV

Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

Nehemiah 9:7KJV

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

Numbers 32:31KJV

And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

Exodus 19:23KJV

Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.

Joshua 8:7KJV

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Psalms 44:9KJV

The verses explored highlight the multifaceted nature of being "chosen." From Israel's initial selection for a unique covenantal relationship and purpose, to the inclusion of all believers in Christ as a chosen people, these scriptures reveal God's proactive love and intentional design for humanity. Election is not merely a privilege, but a calling to obedience, service, and reflection of God's character to the world. It underscores a responsibility to live out our faith with humility and gratitude. Meditating on these passages can inspire a deeper understanding of our identity in Christ and motivate us to actively participate in God's redemptive plan, extending His grace and love to all, regardless of background, echoing the inclusive nature of the new covenant He established. Embrace your chosen status as a catalyst for positive change, reflecting God's light and sharing the good news with a world longing for hope.