6 occurrences in 11 translations

'Special People' in the Bible

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

And today the Lord has affirmed that you are His special people as He promised you, that you are to keep all His commands,

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

For,' I say, 'just as shorts cling tightly to a person's body, so I bound the whole nation of Israel and the whole nation of Judah tightly to me.' I intended for them to be my special people and to bring me fame, honor, and praise. But they would not obey me.

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