1 Chronicles 2:42

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,

Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,

and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,

Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!

But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.

Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.

She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

The father of Gibeon, whose wife’s name was Maacah, lived in Gibeon,

However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,