Exodus 19:5
If, therefore, you will hear my voice, and you will keep my covenant, you will be to me a particular possession out of all people. For all the earth is mine.
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Exodus 9:29Moses said: “When I have departed from the city, I will extend my hands to the Lord, and the thunders will cease, and the hail will not be, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
Exodus 23:22But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.
Exodus 34:9he said: “If I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, I beg you to walk with us, (for the people are stiff-necked) and take away our iniquities and our sin, and so possess us.”
Deuteronomy 4:20But the Lord has taken you up, and led you away from the iron furnaces of Egypt, in order to have a people of inheritance, just as it is to the present day.
Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you so that you would be his particular people out of all the peoples who are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy 10:14Lo, heaven belongs to the Lord your God, and the heaven of heaven, and the earth, and all the things that are within these.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 19:2-9
The Covenant of Sinai. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen… Read the whole commentary →