Quotes About Choice

So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one He chooses, He will bring near to Himself.

and tomorrow you are to place fire and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi who have taken too much upon yourselves!”

The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

And the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or left.

Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”

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

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.

you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,

And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.

But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.

For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ëWho will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?í