Deuteronomy 7:5-7

Christian Standard Bible

⁵ Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,^(A) and burn their carved images. ⁶ For you are a holy people^(B) belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession^(C) out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

⁷ “The Lord had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.