 | Gerald Massey - 2007 - 701 sivua
...men in number, yea, very few, and strangers in it," ie the land of Canaan, not in the land of Egypt.1 "The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose...number than any people, for ye (were) the fewest of all people,"8 This has the look of the historical fact, but is at utter variance with the numbers given... | |
 | Steven T. Katz, Shlomo Biderman, Gershon Greenberg - 2007 - 704 sivua
...suffering and tranquillity, in exile and in the Land of Israel. Nahmanides, of blessed memory, wrote: "The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose...than any people — for ye were the fewest of all peoples — but because the Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore unto... | |
 | Daryl Allen - 2007 - 157 sivua
...groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people...himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth Deuteronomy 7:2-6 This is a very important point. If we are going to take possession of and progressively... | |
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T. Joyner Drolsum - 2007 - 365 sivua
...justification for the current dispossession of the Palestinians of their homeland. Dt. 7:6: "...the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people...himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." Jos. 9:21-27: God curses the Gibeonites to be slaves of the Jews forever. Gibeon was a city... | |
 | William H. Wallender - 2007 - 286 sivua
...graven images with fire. 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...himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Genesis 12:1 - Now the Lord said unto Abram, "Get thee out of this country, and from thy kindred,... | |
 | Harry Mark - 2007 - 82 sivua
...society. Yet God's Word tells us they are, Deut.7:6, "...an holy people unto the LORD your God, the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people...himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." Romans 9:4, " ..to whom pertaines the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the service... | |
 | Kevin P. Spicer - 2007 - 356 sivua
...Isaac" (Cohen translation, viii). Nor did God choose the people of Israel because of their number: "'The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose...you, because ye were more in number than any people . . .' [Dt 7:7]" (Cohen translation, iii). Echoing Maimonides ("As it is impossible for God to cease... | |
 | Strobe Talbott - 2008 - 505 sivua
...justification of the ferocity of this exhortation: For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people...any people; for ye were the fewest of all people. As for how the leaders of Israel should rule their subjects, biblical law recognizes the nation's eclectic... | |
 | John Phillips - 218 sivua
...love, as Moses, in his memoirs, made clear to Israel. "The Lord" he said, "did not set his love upon you, . . . because ye were more in number than any...fewest of all people: But because the Lord loved you" (Deut. 7:7—8). Why does He love us? It is simply because He loves us! It is unconditional love. It... | |
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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 that are upon the face of the earth. 
