Genesis 17:7-8
7And I will aestablish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, bto be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8And cI will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and dI will be their God.”Exodus 19:5-6
5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be emy treasured possession among all peoples, for fall the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a gkingdom of priests and ha holy nation'. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”Deuteronomy 4:20
20But the Lord has taken you and ibrought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, jto be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.Deuteronomy 7:6
6“For kyou are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be la people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 14:2
2For myou are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.Deuteronomy 26:18
18And the Lord has declared today that you are na people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,2 Samuel 7:23-24
23 oAnd who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name pand doing for them ▼▼With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you
great and awesome things by driving out ▼▼Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew for your land
before your people, whom syou redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? 24 tAnd you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God. Jeremiah 31:33
33 uFor this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: vI will put my law within them, and I will write it won their hearts. xAnd I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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