Deuteronomy 7:7

The Scriptures 2009

“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,

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 Aḇraham His servant, Children of Ya‛aqoḇ, His chosen ones!

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O יהוה, not to us, But to Your Name give esteem, For Your loving-commitment, 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 Aḇraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For he was alone when I called him, and I blessed him and increased him.

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’ĕl and lifted My hand in an oath to the seed of the house of Ya‛aqoḇ, and made Myself known to them in the land of Mitsrayim, I lifted My hand in an oath to them, saying, ‘I am יהוה your Elohim.’

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the house of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Yisra’ĕl, but for My set-apart Name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.

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.