choose

Genesis 12:1, 2
Then the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

Joshua 24:2, 3
And Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Long ago your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods. . . .

Isaiah 41:8, 9
But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend-- . . .

Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.

Ur

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 15:7
The LORD also told him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

Acts 7:2-4
And Stephen declared: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, . . .

gavest

Genesis 17:5
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you the father of many nations.