Deuteronomy 7:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ “יהוה  did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more numerous than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The Lord did not set His love upon you and choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the fewest of all people.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Jehovah 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 peoples:

Common English Bible

⁷ It was not because you were greater than all other people that the LORD loved you and chose you. In fact, you were the smallest of peoples!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ It is not because you surpass all the nations in number that the Lord has joined with you and has chosen you, for you are the least numerous of any people.

Deuteronomy 7:7 Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:19

When you were but few in number, Few indeed, and sojourners in it.

Psalm 105:12

When they were few in number, Few indeed, and sojourners in it,

Psalm 105:6

O seed of Aḇ

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O יהוה, not to us, But to Your Name give esteem, For Your kindness, For Your truth.

Psalm 44:3

For not by their own sword did they possess the land, Neither did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand and Your arm, And the light of Your face, Because You delighted in them.

Isaiah 51:2

“Look to Aḇ

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress He was distressed, and the Messenger of His Presence saved them. In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them, and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Ezekiel 20:5

“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “On the day when I chose Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the house of Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 7:14

“Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Luke 12:32

“Do not fear, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign.

Romans 11:6

And if by favour, it is no longer of works, otherwise favour is no longer favour. And if it is of works, it is no longer favour, otherwise work is no longer work.

Romans 9:18

So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.

Romans 9:21

Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value?

Deuteronomy 1:10

‘יהוה  your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 10:22

“Your fathers went down to Mitsrayim with seventy beings, and now יהוה  your Elohim has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 14:2

for you are a set-apart people to יהוה  your Elohim, and יהוה  has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:37

“And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out of Mitsrayim with His Presence, with His great power,

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning offering for our sins.