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…the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.

Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.

Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

…but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

…so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed Him? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

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

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.

May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.

How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.

Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

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.

One lacking such an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.

“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.