关于以色列的23节圣经经文

In the Bible, Israel is the name God gives to one man, and then to the nation that comes from him. Jacob receives the name in Genesis 32:28, and Deuteronomy 7:6 calls his descendants a people God chose “for his treasured possession.” The Old Testament follows that nation from the promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:2-3) through exile (2 Chronicles 36:20-21), the return under Cyrus (Ezra 1:1-3) and the new covenant promised to “the house of Israel and the house of…