'Choice' in the Bible
All the choice men among his troops will die by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!
For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.
add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.
Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up bones under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.
They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!
And you will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a gallon of olive oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to the Lord; this is a perpetual statute.
They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart to the Lord.