Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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:
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Ye were
Deuteronomy 10:22
With seventy souls thy fathers went down to Egypt; and now Jehovah set thee as the stain of the heavens for multitude.
Isaiah 51:2
look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah bringing you forth: for one I called him, and I will bless him, and I will increase him.
Matthew 7:14
For strait the gate and afflicted the way leading into life, and few are they finding it.
Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock; for your Father was contented to give you the kingdom.
Romans 9:27
And Esaias cries for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved:
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Deuteronomy 10:15
Only Jehovah delighted in thy fathers to love them, and he will choose in their seed after them in you above all peoples, as this day.
Ezekiel 36:22
For this, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I do not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name which ye profaned among the nations where ye went there.