the evidence that will be set forth. The activity of YHWH’s election is expressed in this fashion some ninety-nine times.4 Thus it becomes immediately clear that this concept is not an unimportant idea within the Old Testament (altogether the term ḅhr occurs 146 times). There are thirteen instances that mention that either something or someone has been “elected” by YHWH: for example, Moses (Ps. 106:23), David (Ps. 89:4), and the servant of God (Isa. 42:1). In looking at the distribution of the specifically