Why Did God Choose Israel?

The Bible clearly identifies the people of Israel as God’s chosen people. But He loves and has a plan for all people, so why did God choose Israel?

Who are God’s chosen people?

The Scriptures are quite clear that among all the nations in the world, God chose Israel as the one He would work with. God said through the prophet Isaiah, “Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen” (Isaiah 44:1).

This was the nation that God delivered out of slavery in Egypt, the nation to whom God gave the land of Canaan, and the nation through whom would come Jesus, the Messiah. 

Was there something special about these people unlike others?

By David Treybig

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