Deuteronomy 7:5-7

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁵ But this is what you must do to these people: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols. ⁶ You are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He chose you to be his own special possession out of all the nations on earth.

⁷ The Lord set his heart on you and chose you, even though you didn’t outnumber all the other people. You were the smallest of all nations.