Deuteronomy 10:15
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
KJV
et tamen patribus tuis conglutinatus est Dominus, et amavit eos, elegitque semen eorum post eos, id est, vos, de cunctis gentibus, sicut hodie comprobatur.
Vulgate
πλὴν τοὺς πατέρας ὑμῶν προείλατο Κύριος ἀγαπᾷν αὐτούς, καὶ ἐξελέξατο τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν μετ’ αὐτοὺς ὑμᾶς παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν ταύτην.
LXX
Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
ASV
רַ֧ק בַּ/אֲבֹתֶ֛י/ךָ חָשַׁ֥ק יְהוָ֖ה לְ/אַהֲבָ֣ה אוֹתָ֑/ם וַ/יִּבְחַ֞ר בְּ/זַרְעָ֣/ם אַחֲרֵי/הֶ֗ם בָּ/כֶ֛ם מִ/כָּל הָ/עַמִּ֖ים כַּ/יּ֥וֹם הַ/זֶּה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§218In the course of its history, Israel was able to discover that God had only one reason to reveal himself to them, a single motive for choosing them from among all peoples as his special possession: his sheer gratuitous love.38 and thanks to the prophets Israel understood that it was again out of love that God never stopped saving them and pardoning their unfaithfulness and sins…
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that the cause for God's sending the gospel to one people rather than to another is not merely and solely God's good pleasure, but rather that one people is better and worthier than the other to whom the gospel is not communicated. For Moses denies this when he addresses the people of Israel as follows: "Behold, to the Lord your G…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- 2Sam 9:3 — And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
- Amos 3:2 — You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
- Deut 4:37 — And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
- Deut 4:37 — And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
- Deut 7:8 — But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
- Isa 41:8 — But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
- Jer 31:3 — The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
- Mal 1:2 — I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
- Num 14:8 — If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
- Ps 44:3 — For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto t
- Ps 135:4 — For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
- Rom 11:28 — As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.