The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,.... He had done both, and the one as the effect and evidence of the other; he loved them, and therefore he chose them; but neither of them,because ye were more in number than any people; not for the quantity of them, nor even for the quality of them:for ye were the fewest of all people; fewer than the Egyptians, from whence they came, and than the Canaanites they were going to drive out and inherit their land, De 7:1.
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Deuteronomy 7:7
Deuteronomy 7:7
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