Predestination

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 21:12 OT

  God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

• Genesis 21:13 OT

  I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”

• Exodus 9:16 OT

  but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

• Exodus 33:19 OT

  He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

• Deuteronomy 4:37 OT

  Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

• Deuteronomy 7:7 OT

  Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;

• Deuteronomy 7:8 OT

  but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 10:15 OT

  Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

• Deuteronomy 32:8 OT

  When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 11:20 OT

  For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• 1 Samuel 12:22 OT

  For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

• 1 Kings 12:15 OT

  So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

• 1 Kings 20:42 OT

  He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’ ”

• 2 Kings 19:25 OT

  Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

• 2 Chronicles 6:6 OT

  but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

• Job 23:13 OT

  But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

• Job 23:14 OT

  For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

• Psalms 33:12 OT

  Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

• Psalms 65:4 OT

  Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

• Psalms 78:67 OT

  Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

• Psalms 78:68 OT

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

• Psalms 78:70-72 OT

  He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. So he was their shepherd according to…

• Psalms 105:17-22 OT

  He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave. They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons, until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true. The king sent and freed him, even the…

• Psalms 135:4 OT

  For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.