'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 declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

The Lord will certainly have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with 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.