22 occurrences

'Chooses' in the Bible

and put fire in them, and lay incense upon them in the presence of the Lord tomorrow; and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the one who is holy. You have gone far enough, you sons of Levi!”

Verse ConceptsHoliness, Believers' Growth In

but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

If the place which the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire.

Verse ConceptsFar From HereA Place For God's Name

Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the Lord chooses.

You shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

Verse ConceptsLearningFirstbornChoicesGrainReverence, And ObedienceSacred PlacesThe Fear Of The LordTithes And Offeringfriendliness

If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the Lord your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the Lord your God blesses you,

Verse ConceptsFar From HereTithes And OfferingMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

then you shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyFinancesTithes And OfferingChanging YourselfGiving BackMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

You and your household shall eat it every year before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses.

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesEating Before GodFamily First

You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to establish His name.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, religious role ofChoicesSacred PlacesA Place For God's Name

but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsA Place For God's Nameanniversary

You shall cook and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents.

Verse Conceptscooking

and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

Verse ConceptsSeven Days

“Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsFeasting On Special OccasionsLaw, OtPilgrimageWorship, Times ForMen WorshippingEmpty HandedThree Times A YearFestivals Observedvacation

“If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

Verse ConceptsSacred PlacesHard Tasks

You shall do according to the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Man's Word

you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.

Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

“Now if a Levite comes from any of your towns throughout Israel where he resides, and comes whenever he desires to the place which the Lord chooses,

that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

Verse ConceptsChoicesBaskets, Uses OfWorship, Places OfA Place For God's NameFirst fruits

Then the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”

Verse ConceptsChoosing Things

He chooses our inheritance for us,The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Verse ConceptsPsalm InterjectionsGod's Love For Israel

Behold, you are of no account,And your work amounts to nothing;He who chooses you is an abomination.

Verse ConceptsIdols Not ExistingUseless Idols

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐκλέγομαι 
Eklegomai 
Usage: 14

αἱρέομαι 
Haireomai 
Usage: 3

αἱρετίζω 
Hairetizo 
Usage: 1

ἐπιλέγομαι 
Epilegomai 
be called , choose
Usage: 2

προχειρίζομαι 
Procheirizomai 
Usage: 1

προχειροτονέω 
Procheirotoneo 
Usage: 1

χειροτονέω 
Cheirotoneo 
Usage: 2

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