Reference: Chosen
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spoken of warriors (Ex 15:4; Jg 20:16), of the Hebrew nation (Ps 105:43; De 7:7), of Jerusalem as the seat of the temple (1Ki 11:13). Christ is the "chosen" of God (Isa 42:1); and the apostles are "chosen" for their work (Ac 10:41). It is said with regard to those who do not profit by their opportunities that "many are called, but few are chosen" (Mt 20:16). (See Election of Grace.)
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Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.
The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.
Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.
And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:
See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
So the last will be first, and the first last.
Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.