Psalms 47:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

1 Pet 1:4 : 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Nah 2:2 : 2 For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.
Amos 6:8 : 8 The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Amos 8:7 : 7 Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Hos 14:4 : 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
Eph 2:4-5 : 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
1 John 4:9-9 : 9 Herein {G5129} was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 Herein {G5129} is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
Deut 7:6-8 : 6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7 Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples: 8 but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deut 11:12 : 12 a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Deut 33:3 : 3 Yea, he loveth the people; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; [Every one] shall receive of thy words.
Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
Isa 60:15 : 15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
Ezek 20:6 : 6 in that day I sware unto them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
Mal 1:2 : 2 I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;
Matt 25:34 : 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
1 Cor 3:22-23 : 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Eph 1:18 : 18 having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, {G2532} what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 135:4
80%
4For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [And] Israel for his own possession.
Ps 47:3
75%
3He subdueth peoples under us, And nations under our feet.
Ps 33:12
75%
12Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Ps 78:67-68
2 verses
74%
67Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
Deut 32:9
73%
9For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Ps 47:5
73%
5God is gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet.
Ps 132:13
72%
13For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.
Zech 2:12
71%
12And Jehovah shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Isa 34:17
71%
17And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Deut 4:37-38
2 verses
71%
37And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
38to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
Deut 33:4
71%
4Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
Ps 65:4
70%
4Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee], That he may dwell in thy courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, Thy holy temple.
Ps 78:70-71
2 verses
70%
70He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:
71From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Ps 46:7
70%
7Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. {H5542}
Ps 105:43-44
2 verses
70%
43And he brought forth his people with joy, [And] his chosen with singing.
44And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:
Deut 10:15
69%
15Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
1 Chr 16:13
69%
13O ye seed of Israel his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Ps 46:11
69%
11Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. {H5542}
Isa 44:1
69%
1Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I have chosen:
Isa 65:9
69%
9And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Deut 7:6
68%
6For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
1 Kgs 8:53
68%
53For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.
Ps 105:6
68%
6O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Ps 78:55
68%
55He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Deut 18:5
68%
5For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons for ever.
Ps 106:5
68%
5That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, That I may glory with thine inheritance.
Ps 16:5
68%
5Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot.
Ps 44:4
68%
4Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.
Deut 14:2
68%
2For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Ps 111:6
68%
6He hath showed his people the power of his works, In giving them the heritage of the nations.
Isa 14:1
68%
1For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Ps 99:4
68%
4The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Jer 10:16
67%
16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
1 Chr 28:4
67%
4Howbeit Jehovah, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel;
Jer 51:19
67%
19The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
Deut 4:20
67%
20But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
Eph 1:4
67%
4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
Ps 77:15
67%
15Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. {H5542}
Ps 89:17
67%
17For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
Ps 37:22
67%
22For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.
Isa 49:7
67%
7Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Jehovah that is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
Ps 3:8
66%
8Salvation belongeth unto Jehovah: Thy blessing be upon thy people. {Selah}
Ps 60:7
66%
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
Ps 67:4
66%
4Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For thou wilt judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations upon earth. {H5542}
Ps 105:11
66%
11Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;