- Genesis 12:1-3:
“The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.’”
- Exodus 19:5-6:
“Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
- Deuteronomy 7:6:
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.”
- Deuteronomy 11:12:
“It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.”
- 1 Chronicles 17:9:
“And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning”
- 2 Chronicles 6:6:
“But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.”
- Psalm 122:6:
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: ‘May those who love you be secure.'”
- Isaiah 43:1:
“But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.'”
- Jeremiah 3:14:
“Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.”
- Jeremiah 31:33:
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- Ezekiel 37:21-22:
“and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.”
- Amos 9:15:
“I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,’ says the Lord your God.”
- Zechariah 2:12:
“And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.”
- Zechariah 8:8:
“I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.”
- Matthew 2:6:
“But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.”
- Matthew 15:24:
“He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.'”
- Luke 1:68:
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them.”
- Acts 1:6:
“Then they gathered around him and asked him, ‘Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?'”
- Romans 11:26:
“And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.'”
- Romans 9:4-5:
“the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.”
- Revelation 21:12:
“It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.”
- Genesis 28:13:
“There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.'”
- Isaiah 41:14:
“Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you,’ declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”
- Jeremiah 31:1:
“At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
- Jeremiah 32:37:
“I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.”
- Ezekiel 36:24:
“For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.”
- Micah 5:3:
“Therefore Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labor bears a son, and the rest of his brothers return to join the Israelites.”
- Hosea 11:1:
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”
- Luke 1:33:
“and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
- Revelation 21:12-13:
“It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.”