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TWOT Reference: 231
to choose, elect, decide for
(Qal) to choose
(Niphal) to be chosen
(Pual) to be chosen, selected
Strong's Number H977 matches the Hebrew בָּחַר (bāḥar),
which occurs 170 times in 162 verses
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 1 / 4 (Gen 6:2–1Sa 8:18)
the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.
So Lot chose the entire plain of the Jordan for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.
he took six hundred of the best chariots and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, with officers in each one.
Moses said to Joshua, “Select some men for us and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God’s staff in my hand.”
So Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them leaders over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to him, who is set apart, and the one he will let come near him. He will let the one he chooses come near him.
“place fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is set apart. It is you Levites who have gone too far! ”
“The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites’ complaints that they have been making about you.”
“Because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and great power,
“For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
“The LORD had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
“Yet the LORD had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them. He chose their descendants after them — he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.
“Instead, turn to the place the LORD your God chooses from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.
“then the LORD your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,[fn] and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
“You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.
“You are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God chooses — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your city gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you do,
“If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock he has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your city gates whenever you want.
“But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD chooses.
“for you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
“You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place where he chooses to have his name dwell, so that you will always learn to fear the LORD your God.
“But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you and since the LORD your God has blessed you,
“then exchange it for silver, take the silver in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God chooses.
“Each year you and your family are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD chooses.
“Sacrifice to the LORD your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the LORD chooses to have his name dwell.
“Sacrifice the Passover animal only at the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.
“You are to cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning.
“Rejoice before the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you.
“You are to hold a seven-day festival for the LORD your God in the place he chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy.
“All your males are to appear three times a year before the LORD your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.
“If a case is too difficult for you — concerning bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults — cases disputed at your city gates, then go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.
“You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.
“you are to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.
“For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes to stand and minister in his name from now on.[fn]
“When a Levite leaves one of your towns in Israel where he was staying and wants to go to the place the LORD chooses,
“Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve him and pronounce blessings in his name, and they are to give a ruling in[fn] every dispute and case of assault.
“Let him live among you wherever he wants within your city gates. Do not mistreat him.
“take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell.
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
“when all Israel assembles in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he chooses, you are to read this law aloud before all Israel.
So Joshua and all the troops set out to attack Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand of his best soldiers and sent them out at night.
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers — as they are today — for the community and for the LORD’s altar at the place he would choose.
“But if it doesn’t please you to worship the LORD, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship — the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living? As for me and my family, we will worship the LORD.”
Joshua then told the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you yourselves have chosen to worship the LORD.”
“We are witnesses,” they said.
Israel chose new gods,
then there was war in the city gates.
Not a shield or spear was seen
among forty thousand in Israel.
“Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you whenever you are oppressed.”
On that day the Benjaminites mobilized twenty-six thousand armed men from their cities, besides seven hundred fit young men rallied by the inhabitants of Gibeah.
There were seven hundred fit young men who were left-handed among all these troops; all could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
Then ten thousand fit young men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was about to strike them.
“Out of all the tribes of Israel, I chose your house[fn] to be my priests, to offer sacrifices on my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your forefather’s family all the Israelite food offerings.
1. Gen 6:2–1Sa 8:18
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