Are The Twelve Tribes of Israel the Chosen People of God? The above question is at the heart of the Dispensationalists claim of Israel's uncontested privilege as the people of God and claim to land given by covenant in the Bible. That the Israelites were chosen in the Bible is not questioned. The real questions are how, and for what purpose? God Chose Israel To Keep His Covenant, Deuteronomy 7:7 Israel was chosen, not as mistakenly believed, to be an ethnic nation, but a holy nation. Holy does not mean ethnicity. It means a people separated for the work and service of God. ...