# בָּחַר (bachar)

Israeli respelling: ba-char. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H977. 162 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select

King James renderings: acceptable, appoint, choose (choice), excellent, join, be rather, require.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/bachar-h977

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/2) — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- [Genesis 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/13/11) — Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- [Exodus 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/14/7) — And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.
- [Exodus 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/17/9) — And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of…
- [Exodus 18:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/18/25) — And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties…
- [Numbers 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/5) — And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause hi…
- [Numbers 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/7) — And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall b…
- [Numbers 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/17/5) — And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the c…
- [Deuteronomy 4:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/37) — And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of…
- [Deuteronomy 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/6) — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people…
- [Deuteronomy 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/7) — The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peopl…
- [Deuteronomy 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/15) — Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
- [Deuteronomy 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/5) — But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye see…
- [Deuteronomy 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/11) — Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I comman…
- [Deuteronomy 12:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/14) — But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all…
- [Deuteronomy 12:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/18) — But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and t…
- [Deuteronomy 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/21) — If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flo…
- [Deuteronomy 12:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/26) — Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
- [Deuteronomy 14:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/2) — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nation…
- [Deuteronomy 14:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/23) — And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine,…
- [Deuteronomy 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/24) — And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God sh…
- [Deuteronomy 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/25) — Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
- [Deuteronomy 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/20) — Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
- [Deuteronomy 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/2) — Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to p…
- [Deuteronomy 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/6) — But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going do…
- [Deuteronomy 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/7) — And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
- [Deuteronomy 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/11) — And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levit…
- [Deuteronomy 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/15) — Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bl…
- [Deuteronomy 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/16) — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bre…
- [Deuteronomy 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/17/8) — If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being…
- [Deuteronomy 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/17/10) — And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe t…
- [Deuteronomy 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/17/15) — Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over the…
- [Deuteronomy 18:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/18/5) — For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
- [Deuteronomy 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/18/6) — And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place w…
- [Deuteronomy 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/21/5) — And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of t…
- [Deuteronomy 23:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/16) — He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not…
- [Deuteronomy 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/2) — That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and…
- [Deuteronomy 30:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/19) — I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose l…
- [Deuteronomy 31:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/11) — When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in…
- [Joshua 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/3) — So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them a…
- [Joshua 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/27) — And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day,…
- [Joshua 24:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/15) — And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that wer…
- [Joshua 24:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/22) — And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are…
- [Judges 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/8) — They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
- [Judges 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/14) — Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
- [Judges 20:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/15) — And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitan…
- [Judges 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/16) — Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
- [Judges 20:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/34) — And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
- [1 Samuel 2:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/28) — And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me…
- [1 Samuel 8:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/18) — And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
- [1 Samuel 10:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/24) — And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the peop…
- [1 Samuel 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/13) — Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
- [1 Samuel 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/2) — Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with…
- [1 Samuel 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/8) — Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
- [1 Samuel 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/9) — Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
- [1 Samuel 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/16/10) — Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
- [1 Samuel 17:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/40) — And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even i…
- [1 Samuel 20:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/30) — Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou ha…
- [1 Samuel 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/2) — Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
- [1 Samuel 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/2) — Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wildern…
- [2 Samuel 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/1) — Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
- [2 Samuel 6:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/6/21) — And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over th…
- [2 Samuel 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/10/9) — When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in arr…
- [2 Samuel 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/15) — And the king’s servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
- [2 Samuel 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/16/18) — And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will…
- [2 Samuel 17:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/1) — Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
- [2 Samuel 19:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/38) — And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt…
- [2 Samuel 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/12) — Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
- [1 Kings 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/8) — And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
- [1 Kings 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 an house, that m…
- [1 Kings 8:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/44) — If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which…
- [1 Kings 8:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/48) — And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray…
- [1 Kings 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/13) — Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake whic…
- [1 Kings 11:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 I…
- [1 Kings 11:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/34) — Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake,…
- [1 Kings 11:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/36) — And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen m…
- [1 Kings 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/21) — And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand…
- [1 Kings 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/21) — And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen yea…
- [1 Kings 18:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/23) — Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put…
- [1 Kings 18:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/25) — And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name…
- [2 Kings 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/7) — And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this hous…
- [2 Kings 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/27) — And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have c…
- [1 Chronicles 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/15/2) — Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister…
- [1 Chronicles 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/19/10) — Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array ag…
- [1 Chronicles 21:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/10) — Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
- [1 Chronicles 28:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/4) — Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be t…
- [1 Chronicles 28:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/5) — And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD…
- [1 Chronicles 28:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/6) — And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
- [1 Chronicles 28:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/28/10) — Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
- [1 Chronicles 29:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/1) — Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the wor…
- [2 Chronicles 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/5) — Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in,…
- [2 Chronicles 6:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [2 Chronicles 6:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/34) — If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou…
- [2 Chronicles 6:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/38) — If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives…
- [2 Chronicles 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/12) — And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of…
- [2 Chronicles 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/16) — For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetuall…
- [2 Chronicles 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/11/1) — And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which…
- [2 Chronicles 12:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/12/13) — So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he re…
- [2 Chronicles 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/3) — And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle…
- [2 Chronicles 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/17) — And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
- [2 Chronicles 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/5) — Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of the…
- [2 Chronicles 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/11) — My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and bu…
- [2 Chronicles 33:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/7) — And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this…
- [Nehemiah 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/1/9) — But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet…
- [Nehemiah 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/7) — Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
- [Job 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/15) — So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
- [Job 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/14) — How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
- [Job 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/5) — For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- [Job 29:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/25) — I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
- [Job 34:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/4) — Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
- [Job 34:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/33) — Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what tho…
- [Job 36:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/21) — Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
- [Psalms 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/12) — What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
- [Psalms 33:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/33/12) — Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
- [Psalms 47:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/47/4) — He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
- [Psalms 65:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/65/4) — Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the g…
- [Psalms 78:67](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/67) — Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
- [Psalms 78:68](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/68) — But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
- [Psalms 78:70](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/70) — He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
- [Psalms 84:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/84/10) — For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wicke…
- [Psalms 105:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/26) — He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
- [Psalms 119:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/30) — I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
- [Psalms 119:173](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/173) — Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
- [Psalms 132:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/13) — For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
- [Psalms 135:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/135/4) — For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
- [Proverbs 1:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/29) — For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
- [Proverbs 3:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/31) — Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
- [Proverbs 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/10) — Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
- [Proverbs 8:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/19) — My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
- [Proverbs 10:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/20) — The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
- [Proverbs 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/16) — How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
- [Proverbs 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/3) — To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- [Proverbs 22:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/1) — A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
- [Ecclesiastes 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/4) — For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
- [Song of Solomon 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/15) — His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- [Isaiah 1:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/29) — For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
- [Isaiah 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/15) — Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- [Isaiah 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/16) — For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
- [Isaiah 14:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/1) — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with t…
- [Isaiah 40:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/20) — He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a g…
- [Isaiah 41:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/8) — But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
- [Isaiah 41:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/9) — Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I h…
- [Isaiah 41:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/24) — Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
- [Isaiah 43:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/10) — Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: befor…
- [Isaiah 44:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/1) — Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
- [Isaiah 44:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/2) — Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun,…
- [Isaiah 48:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/10) — Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
- [Isaiah 49:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/7) — Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of…
- [Isaiah 56:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/56/4) — For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
- [Isaiah 58:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/5) — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth…
- [Isaiah 58:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/58/6) — Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and…
- [Isaiah 65:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/12) — Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spak…
- [Isaiah 66:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/3) — He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as i…
- [Isaiah 66:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/4) — I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did no…
- [Jeremiah 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/3) — And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whith…
- [Jeremiah 33:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Jeremiah 49:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/19) — Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run awa…
- [Ezekiel 20:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/5) — And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, an…
- [Haggai 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/haggai/2/23) — In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee…
- [Zechariah 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/1/17) — Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion…
- [Zechariah 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/2/12) — And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
- [Zechariah 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/3/2) — And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand pluc…