Lexicon :: Strong's G140 - hairetizō

“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.[fn]

“If the LORD is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us.

Israel chose new gods,

then there was war in the city gates.

Not a shield or spear was seen

among forty thousand in Israel.

Then David accepted what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. See, I have heard what you said and have granted your request.”

“Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s family to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s family, and from my father’s sons, he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

“He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon is the one who is to build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

“Realize now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

Then King David said to all the assembly, “My son Solomon ​— ​God has chosen him alone ​— ​is young and inexperienced. The task is great because the building will not be built for a human but for the LORD God.

“My sons, don’t be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to serve him, and to be his ministers and burners of incense.”

Who is this person who fears the LORD?

He will show him the way he should choose.

I have chosen the way of truth;

I have set your ordinances before me.

May your hand be ready to help me,

for I have chosen your precepts.

For the LORD has chosen Zion;

he has desired it for his home:

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath[fn] to the descendants of Jacob’s house and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, saying, “I am the LORD your God.”

When their drinking is over,

they turn to promiscuity.

Israel’s leaders[fn] fervently love disgrace.[fn]

“On that day” ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“and make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you.” This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

“Proclaim further: This is what the LORD of Armies says: My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will once more comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”

“The LORD will take possession of Judah as his portion in the Holy Land, and he will once again choose Jerusalem.

“They will be mine,” says the LORD of Armies, “my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.