Deuteronomy 4:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

The iron

1 Kings 8:51

Jeremiah 11:4

A people

General references

Deuteronomy 26:6

Bible References

The iron

(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace),

which I commanded your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, ‘Listen to My voice, and do according to all which I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God,’

A people

I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

“For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;

Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His

own possession.

Why, O Lord, do You cause us to stray from Your ways
And harden our heart from fearing You?

Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a

holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

General references

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.