Acts 13:17

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Acts 13:17

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great and numerous during their stay [as foreigners] in the land of Egypt, and then with an uplifted arm He led them out of there.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people for His own possession [that is, His very special treasure].

Psalm 105:23-24

Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

Genesis 12:1-3

Now [in Haran] the Lord had said to Abram,

“Go away from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;

Genesis 17:7-8

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Exodus 1:7-9

but the Israelites were prolific and increased greatly; they multiplied and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 6:1-14

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will [not only] let them go, but under compulsion he will drive them out of his land.”

Exodus 13:14

And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘With a strong and powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage and slavery.

Exodus 13:16

So it shall serve as a sign and a reminder on your [left] hand (arm) and as frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong and powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”

Exodus 15:1-21

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the Lord, singing,

“I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously;
The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods; indeed, it was proven when they acted insolently toward Israel [and the Lord showed Himself infinitely superior to all their gods].”

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron [smelting] furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as [you are] this day.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any [man-made] god ever tried to go and take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your [very] eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants who followed them, and brought you from Egypt with His Presence, with His great and awesome power,

Deuteronomy 7:19

the great trials which you saw with your own eyes, and the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out before you, and to confirm the oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy persons [in all], and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 14:2

for you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; and the Lord has chosen you out of all the peoples who are on the earth to be a people for His own possession.

1 Samuel 4:8

Woe to us! Who will rescue us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

Nehemiah 9:7-12

“You are the Lord God,
Who chose Abram
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees,
And gave him the name Abraham.

Psalm 77:13-20

Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt].
What god is great like our God?

Psalm 78:12-13

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided].

Psalm 78:42-53

They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand,
Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

Psalm 105:6-12

O you offspring of Abraham, His servant,
O you sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

Psalm 105:26-39

He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Psalm 105:42-43

For He remembered His holy word
To Abraham His servant;

Psalm 106:7-11

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles;
They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts,
But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea.

Psalm 114:1-8

When Israel came out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen [the descendants of] Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His own special treasure and possession.

Psalm 135:8-10

Who struck the firstborn of Egypt,
Both of man and animal;

Psalm 136:10-15

To Him who struck the firstborn of Egypt,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;

Isaiah 41:8-9

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
The offspring of Abraham My friend,

Isaiah 44:1

“But now listen, O Jacob, My servant,
And Israel, whom I have chosen:

Isaiah 63:9-14

In all their distress He was distressed,
And the angel of His presence saved them,
In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them;
And He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 32:20-21

who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day [continues to do so] both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

Jeremiah 33:24-26

“Have you not noticed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families [Israel the northern kingdom, and Judah the southern kingdom] which the Lord chose, He has rejected’? Thus they despise My [chosen] people, no longer are they [considered] as a nation in their sight.

Amos 2:10

“Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
And I led you forty years through the wilderness
That you might possess the land of the Amorite.

Micah 6:4

“For I brought you up from the land of Egypt
And ransomed you from the house of slavery,
And I sent before you Moses [to lead you], Aaron [the high priest], and Miriam [the prophetess].

Micah 7:15-16

“As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt,
I shall show you marvelous and miraculous things.”

Acts 7:2-53

And he answered, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory [the Shekinah, the radiance of God] appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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Acts 13:17

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

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