Acts 13:17

The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

Cross References (40)

  • Deuteronomy 7:6–8 (7)

    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio

  • Psalms 105:23–24 (3)

    Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

  • Isaiah 63:9–14 (3)

    In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He red

  • Acts 7:2–53 (3)

    And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was

  • Exodus 13:16 (2)

    So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out o

  • Exodus 13:14 (2)

    In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought

  • Deuteronomy 4:20 (2)

    Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, a

  • Exodus 1:7–9 (2)

    but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the lan

  • Micah 6:4 (2)

    For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well

  • Psalms 78:42–53 (2)

    They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

  • Psalms 135:8–10 (2)

    He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.

  • Exodus 18:11 (2)

    Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”

  • Nehemiah 9:7–12 (2)

    You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

  • Psalms 114:1–8 (2)

    When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

  • Psalms 105:42–43 (2)

    For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

  • Deuteronomy 4:34 (2)

    Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong h

  • Jeremiah 32:20–21 (2)

    You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all manki

  • Psalms 136:10–15 (2)

    He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.

  • Isaiah 44:1 (2)

    But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

  • 1 Peter 2:9 (2)

    But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtu

  • Deuteronomy 4:37 (2)

    Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and gr

  • Exodus 15:1–21 (2)

    Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse

  • Psalms 105:26–39 (2)

    He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

  • Deuteronomy 9:5 (2)

    It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is b

  • Isaiah 41:8–9 (2)

    “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

  • Psalms 105:6–12 (2)

    O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

  • Psalms 135:4 (2)

    For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

  • Psalms 77:13–20 (2)

    Your way, O God, is holy. What god is so great as our God?

  • Amos 2:10 (2)

    And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of

  • Genesis 12:1–3 (2)

    Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will s

  • Psalms 78:12–13 (2)

    He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

  • Psalms 106:7–11 (2)

    Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there

  • Deuteronomy 7:19 (2)

    the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your Go

  • Exodus 6:1–14 (2)

    But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the p

  • 1 Samuel 4:8 (2)

    Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all

  • Micah 7:15–16 (2)

    As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.

  • Genesis 17:7–8 (2)

    I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your Go

  • Deuteronomy 14:2 (2)

    for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of

  • Deuteronomy 10:22 (2)

    Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the

  • Jeremiah 33:24–26 (1)

    “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they desp