Deuteronomy 7:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ This is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their ritual pillars, and burn their carved idols in fire, ⁶ because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations^[a] on the face of the earth.”

The Lord Keeps His Covenant

⁷ “It wasn’t because you were more numerous than other nations^[b] of the earth that the Lord committed himself to you and chose you. In fact, you were the least numerous of all the nations.^[c]