TSK · Deuteronomy 7:8

At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the LORD went out of the land of Egypt.

In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”

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

Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

The LORD will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The LORD was pleased to make you his own people.

May the LORD your God be praised because he favored you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions.”

For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them.

He always remembers his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations–

Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life.

In a far-off land the LORD will manifest himself to them. He will say to them,‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.

Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant–

Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,