Deu 7:7, Jer 2:2, Eze 16:6, Hos 2:15, Mal 1:2 | ESV | STEP | It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples ,

Deuteronomy 7:7

7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

Jeremiah 2:2

2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

“I remember the devotion of ^ayour youth,
your love ^bas a bride,
^chow you followed me in the wilderness,
^din a land not sown.

Ezekiel 16:6

6 “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing ^ein your blood, I said to you ^fin your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you ^gin your blood, ‘Live!’

Hosea 2:15

15 And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor ^{▼▼ Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26} a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ⁱas in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Malachi 1:2

The Lord’s Love for Israel

2 ^j“I have loved you,” says the Lord. ^kBut you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau ^lJacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet ^mI have loved Jacob