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1. 1 Samuel 10:24 בָּֽחַר־

   Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

2. 1 Samuel 12:13 בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם

   Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.

3. 1 Samuel 13:2 וַיִּבְחַר־

   He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.

4. 1 Samuel 16:8 בָחַ֥ר

   Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel, who said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

5. 1 Samuel 16:9 בָחַ֥ר

   Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

6. 1 Samuel 16:10 בָחַ֥ר

   Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel told him, “The LORD has not chosen any of these.”

7. 1 Samuel 17:40 וַיִּבְחַר־

   And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.

8. 1 Samuel 20:30 בֹחֵ֤ר

   Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?

9. 1 Samuel 24:2 בָּח֖וּר

   So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

10. 1 Samuel 26:2 בְּחוּרֵ֣י

    So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

11. 2 Samuel 6:1 בָּח֥וּר

    David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.

12. 2 Samuel 6:21 בָּֽחַר־

    But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,

13. 2 Samuel 10:9 וַיִּבְחַ֗רבְּחוּרֵ֣י

    When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

14. 2 Samuel 15:15 יִבְחַ֛ר

    The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”

15. 2 Samuel 16:18 בָּחַ֧ר

    “Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by the people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.

16. 2 Samuel 17:1 אֶבְחֲרָ֣ה

    Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

17. 2 Samuel 19:38 תִּבְחַ֥ר

    The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”

18. 2 Samuel 24:12 בְּחַר־

    “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

19. 1 Kings 3:8 בָּחָ֑רְתָּ

    Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

20. 1 Kings 8:16 בָחַ֣רְתִּיוָאֶבְחַ֣ר

    ‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

21. 1 Kings 8:44 בָּחַ֣רְתָּ

    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

22. 1 Kings 8:48 בָּחַ֔רְתָּ

    and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

23. 1 Kings 11:13 בָּחָֽרְתִּי׃

    Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

24. 1 Kings 11:32 בָּחַ֣רְתִּי

    But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

25. 1 Kings 11:34 בָּחַ֣רְתִּי

    Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.

26. 1 Kings 11:36 בָּחַ֣רְתִּי

    I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

27. 1 Kings 12:21 בָּח֖וּר

    And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

28. 1 Kings 14:21 בָּחַ֨ר

    Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

29. 1 Kings 18:23 וְיִבְחֲר֣וּ

    Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.

30. 1 Kings 18:25 בַּחֲר֨וּ

    Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”

31. 2 Kings 21:7 בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙

    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

32. 2 Kings 23:27 בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙

    For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

33. 1 Chronicles 15:2 בָּחַ֣ר

    Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”

34. 1 Chronicles 19:10 וַיִּבְחַ֗רבָּחוּר֙

    When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

35. 1 Chronicles 21:10 בְּחַר־

    “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

36. 1 Chronicles 28:4 וַיִּבְחַ֡רבָּחַ֣ר

    Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

37. 1 Chronicles 28:5 וַיִּבְחַר֙

    And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

38. 1 Chronicles 28:6 בָחַ֨רְתִּי

    And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.

39. 1 Chronicles 28:10 בָּ֧חַר

    Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”

40. 1 Chronicles 29:1 בָּֽחַר־

    Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

41. 2 Chronicles 6:5 בָחַ֣רְתִּֽיבָחַ֣רְתִּֽי

    ‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.

42. 2 Chronicles 6:6 וָאֶבְחַר֙וָאֶבְחַ֣ר

    But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

43. 2 Chronicles 6:34 בָּחַ֣רְתָּ

    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

44. 2 Chronicles 6:38 בָּחַ֔רְתָּ

    and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

45. 2 Chronicles 7:12 וּבָחַ֜רְתִּי

    the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

46. 2 Chronicles 7:16 בָּחַ֤רְתִּי

    For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

47. 2 Chronicles 11:1 בָּח֖וּר

    When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

48. 2 Chronicles 12:13 בָּחַ֨ר

    Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

49. 2 Chronicles 13:3 בָּח֑וּרסבָּח֖וּר

    Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.

50. 2 Chronicles 13:17 בָּחֽוּר׃

    Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.