Bible Dictionary: Kings: God Chooses

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Deuteronomy 17:15
You shall in any wise set him king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you: you may not set a stranger over you, which is not your brother.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Chronicles 28:4-6
However, the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he has chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
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The Call of David.
... And so, in like manner, God is looking out now for kings to fill thrones in His
Son's eternal ... So far, then, God chooses now as He did then, by an outward sign. ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon iv the call of.htm

Jacob and Esau
... You find that few or none of the great kings of the Jews were eldest sons. ... God chooses
Abraham's family to grow into a great nation, and to be a peculiar people ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon vi jacob and esau.htm

God Justified, Though Man Believes Not
... us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests ... If
God chooses to turn evil into good, as he often does, that is no reason why ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 38 1892/god justified though man believes.htm

God's Sovereignty Defined
... I will add unto thy days fifteen years" (2 Kings 20:1-6 ... of His love, we mean that
He loves whom He chooses. God does not love everybody; [3] if He did, He would ...
/.../pink/the sovereignty of god/chapter one gods sovereignty defined.htm

Impure Zeal
... the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.'"2 Kings 10:18-31 ... his character;
partly, no doubt, from natural temperament, for God chooses right instruments ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/impure zeal.htm

Of God's Privy Doom: and that they that Fall Again be not Deemed ...
... To us it longs not to know God's privy doom ... another, withouten mercy that is righteous,
He chooses unto life. ... or have received in the service of kings or great ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter xxx of gods privy.htm

The Desire of all Nations
... Not the kings and princes, not the great and noble after the flesh"these are ... not
many mighty are chosen and called; but still, those whom God chooses must be ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 61 1915/the desire of all nations.htm

A People Prepared for the Lord
... their fathers and mothers; they are obedient and loyal to their kings and their ... and
so again was fulfilled the Scripture, which says, that God chooses the weak ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon xxxviii a people prepared.htm

He Concludes that the Law had an End in Christ, who was Born of ...
... eat, before he knows or prefers the evil, and chooses out the ... with difficulty endure
in consequence of the presence of its two kings. ... 2075] But God shall bring ...
/.../chapter xliii he concludes that the.htm

The Shepherd-King
... Had not Samuel had enough of kings of towering stature ... here is the one so continually
reiterated in Scripture, from Isaac downwards, that God 'chooses the weak ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the shepherd-king.htm