Deuteronomy 7:7

Yahweh did not set his love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people—for you were the fewest of all peoples—

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The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

In Context

6For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. He has chosen you to be a people for him to possess, more than all the other peoples that are on the face of the earth.

8but because he loves you, and he wished to keep the oath that he had sworn to your fathers. This is why Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down into Egypt as seventy persons; now Yahweh your God has made you as many as the stars of the heavens.

Psalms 105:6you descendants of Abraham his servant, 1 you people of Jacob, his chosen ones. 1

Isaiah 51:2Look at Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you; for when he was a lone individual, 1 I called him. I blessed him and made him many. 1

Matthew 7:14But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Romans 9:11for the children were not yet born and had not yet done anything good or bad, so that the purpose of God according to choice might stand, not because of actions, but because of him who calls—

Romans 9:21Does the potter not have the right over the clay to make from the same lump a container for special use, and another container for daily use?

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 7:2-12

A Caution Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto… Read the whole commentary →

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