TSK · Exodus 19:5

Moses said to him,“When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the LORD, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.

But if you diligently obey him and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.

and said,“If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

The heavens– indeed the highest heavens– belong to the LORD your God, as does the earth and everything in it.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

The Covenant Blessings“If you indeed obey the LORD your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

The people said to Joshua,“We will worship the LORD our God and obey him.”

After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

The LORD always proves faithful and reliable to those who follow the demands of his covenant.

But the LORD continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,

My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal alone. The thousand shekels belong to you, O Solomon, and two hundred shekels belong to those who maintain it for its fruit.

The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,

For this is what the LORD says:“For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths and choose what pleases me and are faithful to my covenant,

The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”

For,’ I say,‘just as shorts cling tightly to a person’s body, so I bound the whole nation of Israel and the whole nation of Judah tightly to me.’ I intended for them to be my special people and to bring me fame, honor, and praise. But they would not obey me.

But at the end of the appointed time I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me. I extolled the Most High, and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever. For his authority is an everlasting authority, and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.