16 Bible Verses about God's Love For Israel

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to execute justice and righteousness.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.

Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they sat down at your feet; everyone shall receive of your words.

And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their descendants after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:

But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, has the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her lover, and an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.