1Ki 8:53 Cross References
1 Kings 8:53
53: For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign LORD, you told your servant Moses that you had separated Israel from among all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession."
Deuteronomy 32:9
- For the people of Israel belong to the LORD; Jacob is his special possession.
Exodus 19:5
- Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
- And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."
Deuteronomy 14:2
- You have been set apart as holy to the LORD your God, and he has chosen you to be his own special treasure from all the nations of the earth.
Numbers 23:9
- I see them from the cliff tops; I watch them from the hills. I see a people who live by themselves, set apart from other nations.
Ephesians 1:18
- I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the wonderful future he has promised to those he called. I want you to realize what a rich and glorious inheritance he has given to his people.
Jeremiah 10:16
- But the God of Israel is no idol! He is the Creator of everything that exists, including Israel, his own special possession. The LORD Almighty is his name!
Titus 2:14
- He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing what is right.
Deuteronomy 4:34
- Has any other god taken one nation for himself by rescuing it from another by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, awesome power, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your very eyes.
1 Peter 2:9
- But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are a kingdom of priests, God's holy nation, his very own possession. This is so you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
Deuteronomy 33:26
- "There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor.
- The eternal God is your refuge, and his everlasting arms are under you. He thrusts out the enemy before you; it is he who cries, `Destroy them!'
- So Israel will live in safety, prosperous Jacob in security, in a land of grain and wine, while the heavens drop down dew.
- How blessed you are, O Israel! Who else is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your protecting shield and your triumphant sword! Your enemies will bow low before you, and you will trample on their backs!"
Deuteronomy 9:26
- I prayed to the LORD and said, `O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your own people. They are your special possession, redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and glorious strength.
- Overlook the stubbornness and sin of these people, but remember instead your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- If you destroy these people, the Egyptians will say, "The LORD destroyed them because he wasn't able to bring them to the land he had sworn to give them." Or they might say, "He destroyed them because he hated them; he brought them into the wilderness to slaughter them."
- But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought from Egypt by your mighty power and glorious strength.'
Exodus 33:16
- If you don't go with us, how will anyone ever know that your people and I have found favor with you? How else will they know we are special and distinct from all other people on the earth?"
Deuteronomy 33:1
- This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the people of Israel before his death:
- "The LORD came from Mount Sinai and dawned upon us from Mount Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran and came from Meribah-kadesh with flaming fire at his right hand.
- Indeed, you love the people; all your holy ones are in your hands. They follow in your steps and accept your instruction.
Deuteronomy 7:6
- For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
- "The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
- It was simply because the LORD loves you, and because he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such amazing power from your slavery under Pharaoh in Egypt.
2 Corinthians 6:14
- Don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?
- What harmony can there be between Christ and the Devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?
- And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: "I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Therefore, come out from them and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don't touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you.
- And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. "