2 Samuel 16:18 Hushai said to Absalom, "No; but whoever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will stay. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 21:6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh." The king said, "I will give them." (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS NIV)
1 Kings 3:8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel. (DBY WBS NIV)
1 Kings 8:44 "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 8:48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 11:32 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel); (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 11:36 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Kings 12:21 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Kings 14:21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 21:7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 23:27 Yahweh said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said,'My name shall be there.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Chronicles 7:40 All these 'are' sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen ones, mighty in valour, heads of the princes, with their genealogy, for the host, for battle, their number 'is' twenty and six thousand men. (YLT)
1 Chronicles 9:22 All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 15:2 Then David said, "No one ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him forever." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
1 Chronicles 16:13 you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 16:41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 24:6 Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar. (See RSV)
1 Chronicles 28:4 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever: for he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)
1 Chronicles 28:5 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 28:6 He said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 28:10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 29:1 David the king said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 6:5 Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that My name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over My people Israel; (See NIV)
2 Chronicles 6:6 but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 6:34 If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 6:38 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 7:12 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 7:16 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 11:1 When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
2 Chronicles 12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 13:3 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
2 Chronicles 13:17 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
2 Chronicles 25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, who could handle spear and shield. (WEB JPS ASV YLT)
2 Chronicles 29:11 My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 33:7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 36:17 And He causeth to go up against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slayeth their chosen ones by the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and hath had no pity on young man and virgin, old man and very aged -- the whole He hath given into his hand. (YLT)
Nehemiah 1:9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Esther 2:9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king's house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women's house. (See RSV)
Job 15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty. (DBY)
Job 36:21 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Psalms 2:12 Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him! (YLT)
Psalms 16:5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. (See RSV)
Psalms 25:12 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him will He instruct in the way that He should choose. (See NIV)
Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Psalms 47:4 He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. (DBY)
Psalms 78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. (KJV DBY WBS)
Psalms 84:10 For good 'is' a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness. (YLT)
Psalms 89:3 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 89:19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Psalms 105:6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 105:26 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 105:43 He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 106:5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 119:173 Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 132:13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 135:4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 1:29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. (YLT)
Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the righteous 'is' chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing. (YLT)
Proverbs 16:16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice. (YLT)
Proverbs 22:1 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 41:8 "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 41:9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you,'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 42:1 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. (WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 43:10 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 43:20 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 44:1 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 44:2 This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not known me. (WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Isaiah 48:14 Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans. (See NIV)
Isaiah 49:7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you." (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 57:8 And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy symbol; for thou hast uncovered, and art gone up from Me, thou hast enlarged thy bed, and chosen thee of them whose bed thou lovedst, whose hand thou sawest. (JPS)
Isaiah 58:5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)
Isaiah 58:6 "Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)
Isaiah 65:9 I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. (WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 65:15 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name: (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. (WEB ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 66:3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 8:3 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Armies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 11:22 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: 'Lo, I am seeing after them, The chosen ones die by sword, Their sons and their daughters die by famine, (YLT)
Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are increased to Me above the sand of the seas; I bring upon them, against the mother, a chosen one, even a spoiler at noonday; I cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly. (JPS)
Jeremiah 33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. (KJV DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 50:44 Behold, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Ezekiel 23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. (KJV WBS)
Daniel 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Amos 3:2 "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins." (WEB NAS NIV)
Nahum 3:17 Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. (DBY)
Haggai 2:23 In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, will I take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,' says Yahweh,'and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,' says Yahweh of Armies." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Zechariah 3:2 Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)