Isaiah 41:8

God turns to address Israel as His chosen servant, descended from Abraham His friend.

Cross-references · 27

• Jas 2:23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
• 2 Chr 20:7Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
• Deut 14:2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• John 15:14–15You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
• Isa 51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
• Isa 44:21Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
• Isa 44:1–2Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
• Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
• Isa 29:22Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.
• Isa 43:1But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
• Ps 135:4For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
• Isa 48:12“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I am also the last.
• Gal 4:22–31For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
• Jer 33:24“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘The two families which Yahweh chose, he has cast them off?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
• John 8:33–44They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
• Isa 63:16For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
• Lev 25:42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
• Deut 10:15Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
• Isa 49:3He said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
• Matt 3:9Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
• Rom 9:4–8who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
• Ps 105:42–45For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
• Ps 105:6you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
• Deut 7:6–8For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• Gal 3:19What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
• Rom 4:12–13He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

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