בָּחַר

In the text

• Deuteronomy 4:37וַיִּבְחַר

  Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

• 1 Samuel 13:2וַיִּבְחַר

  He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.

• 1 Kings 8:16וָאֶבְחַר

  ‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

• 2 Chronicles 6:5בָחַרְתִּי

  ‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.

• Psalm 78:67בָחָר

  He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

• Isaiah 14:1וּבָחַר

  For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

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