But thou, Israel, art my servant: thus the Gentiles show themselves to be the servants of their idols, and own them for their god; but thou art my people, and I am and will be thy God.
Whom I have chosen, out of the heap of the idolatrous nations, to be my peculiar people.
Abraham my friend; with whom I made a strict league of perpetual friendship; of which see Gen_12:2,3 15:1,18.