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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The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he cast into the sea, and his choice adjutants were sunk in the {Red Sea}.
"Yahweh loved you and chose you not {because of your great number} exceeding all [other] peoples, for you [are] fewer than all of the peoples,
From all these troops [were] seven hundred well-trained men {who were left-handed}; each one could sling with a stone at a hair and not miss.
Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear [away]. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
And [so] he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.
Look! [here is] my servant; I hold him, my chosen one, [in whom] my soul delights. I have {put} my spirit on him; he will bring justice forth to the nations.
Thus the last will be first and the first last."
not to all the people but to us who had been chosen beforehand by God [as] witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.