Exodus 19:5-6
19:5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me
and keep
my covenant, then you will be my
special possession
out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,
19:6 and you will be to me
a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation.’
These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
Genesis 17:7-8
17:7 I will confirm
my covenant as a perpetual
covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing
– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent
possession. I will be their God.”
Deuteronomy 4:20
4:20 You, however, the
Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace,
to be his special people
as you are today.
Deuteronomy 7:6
7:6 For you are a people holy
to the
Lord your God. He
has chosen you to be his people, prized
above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:2
14:2 For you are a people holy
to the
Lord your God. He
has chosen you to be his people, prized
above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:18
26:18 And today the
Lord has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.
Deuteronomy 26:2
26:2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the
Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he
chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 7:23-24
7:23 The
Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic
until they are destroyed.
7:24 He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory.
Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.
Jeremiah 31:33
31:33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel
after I plant them back in the land,”
says the
Lord.
“I will
put my law within them
and write it on their hearts and minds.
I will be their God and they will be my people.
Hosea 1:10
The Restoration of Israel
1:10 (2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “You are children of the living God!”
Hosea 1:1
Superscription
1:1 This is the word of the Lord which was revealed to Hosea son of Beeri during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah ruled Judah, and during the time when Jeroboam son of Joash ruled Israel.
Hosea 2:10
2:10 Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers,
and no one will be able to rescue her from me!