Israel
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When God renamed Jacob he said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel” (Genesis 32:28), and the name passed to the people descended from his twelve sons, the children of Israel: “Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt” (Exodus 1:1). God brought them out of Egypt, made his covenant with them at Sinai and said, “Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth” (Deuteronomy 7:6).
After Solomon the ten northern tribes made Jeroboam king, and the northern kingdom kept the name Israel, while “there was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only” (1 Kings 12:20). The king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria (2 Kings 17:6).
Jesus said, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24). Paul wrote that “they are not all Israel that are of Israel” (Romans 9:6), and that “all Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26).
For Jacob himself, see Israel (Jacob).
Every mention
Genesis11 mentions
Exodus158 mentions
Leviticus60 mentions
Numbers207 mentions
Deuteronomy69 mentions
Joshua139 mentions
Judges153 mentions
1 Samuel131 mentions
2 Samuel101 mentions
1 Kings171 mentions
2 Kings146 mentions
1 Chronicles88 mentions
2 Chronicles162 mentions
Ezra35 mentions
Psalms69 mentions
Proverbs1 mention
Ecclesiastes1 mention
Song of Solomon1 mention
Isaiah103 mentions
Jeremiah130 mentions
Ezekiel169 mentions
Hosea42 mentions
Amos32 mentions
Nahum1 mention
Acts21 mentions
1 Corinthians1 mention
Galatians1 mention
Ephesians1 mention
Philippians1 mention
Sources
- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · these verses speak of the nation, its people or land, not the man; these verses speak of both the man and the people named after him
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain