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chosen people
noun
- Often Chosen People. (in the Bible) the Israelites.
chosen people
plural noun
- any of various peoples believing themselves to be chosen by God, esp the Jews
Chosen People
- A term applied to the Jews (see also Jews ). According to the Old Testament , God chose the descendants of Abraham through the line of Isaac and Jacob — the ancestors of today's Jews — as the people through whom he would reveal himself to the world. God therefore freed them from slavery in Egypt (see also Egypt ) and led them into the Promised Land .
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chosen people1
First recorded in 1525–35
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They considered the Stuarts and their followers to be godless and corrupt, while they saw themselves as the chosen people.
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"They can do what they want. They are the chosen people."
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That really deeply serves this concept that my people are the chosen people, and everybody else is trying to mess us up.
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Some Christians support Israel due to Old Testament writings that Jews are God’s chosen people and that Israel is their rightful homeland.
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His assistants undergo such a rigorous selection process that a former bodyguard once called them “a caste of chosen people.”
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