2 Esdras 3:13

13 Now when they lived so wickedly before Thee, Thou didst choose Thee a man from among them whose name was Abraham.

2 Esdras 3:13 In-Context

11 Nevertheless one of them Thou leftest, namely, Noah, with his household, of whom came all righteous men.

12 "And it happened, when they that dwelt upon the earth began to multiply, and had gotten them many children and were a great people, that they began again to be more ungodly than the first.

13 Now when they lived so wickedly before Thee, Thou didst choose Thee a man from among them whose name was Abraham.

14 Him Thou loved, and unto him only Thou showed Thy will

15 and madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that Thou wouldest never forsake his seed.