申命记 7:7

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶和華喜愛你們，揀選你們，並不是因為你們的人數比別的民族多，其實你們的人數在萬族中是最少的；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 专 爱 你 们 ， 拣 选 你 们 ， 并 非 因 你 们 的 人 数 多 於 别 民 ， 原 来 你 们 的 人 数 在 万 民 中 是 最 少 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord your God will bring you into the land that you are entering and that you will have as your own. As you go in, he will force out these nations: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations that are stronger than you. ² The Lord your God will hand these nations over to you, and when you defeat them, you must destroy them completely. Do not make a peace treaty with them or show them any mercy. ³ Do not marry any of them, or let your daughters marry their sons, or let your sons marry their daughters. ⁴ If you do, those people will turn your children away from me, to begin serving other gods. Then the Lord will be very angry with you, and he will quickly destroy you. ⁵ This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their altars, smash their holy stone pillars, cut down their Asherah idols, and burn their idols in the fire. ⁶ You are holy people who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own. ⁷ The Lord did not care for you and choose you because there were many of you—you are the smallest nation of all. ⁸ But the Lord chose you because he loved you, and he kept his promise to your ancestors. So he brought you out of Egypt by his great power and freed you from the land of slavery, from the power of the king of Egypt. ⁹ So know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He will keep his agreement of love for a thousand lifetimes for people who love him and obey his commands. ¹⁰ But he will pay back those people who hate him. He will destroy them, and he will not be slow to pay back those who hate him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The Lord: Psalms 115:1, Romans 9:11-15, Romans 9:18, Romans 9:21, Romans 11:6, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 4:10

ye were: Deuteronomy 10:22, Isaiah 51:2, Matthew 7:14, Luke 12:32, Romans 9:27-29

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:30 - and I being Deuteronomy 4:37 - because Deuteronomy 7:13 - he will love Deuteronomy 9:4 - Speak not Deuteronomy 10:15 - General Deuteronomy 23:5 - because the Deuteronomy 26:5 - a few Deuteronomy 33:3 - he loved 1 Samuel 12:22 - it hath 2 Chronicles 2:11 - Because Psalms 44:3 - because Psalms 60:5 - That Psalms 86:2 - holy Psalms 105:12 - a few Psalms 135:4 - the Lord Psalms 149:2 - rejoice Song of Solomon 8:10 - then Isaiah 41:9 - called Isaiah 41:14 - men Isaiah 63:9 - in his Jeremiah 31:3 - I have Ezekiel 36:22 - General Hosea 3:1 - according Hosea 11:1 - Israel Hosea 14:4 - I will love Romans 11:28 - are beloved Galatians 1:15 - it Ephesians 1:4 - as Ephesians 2:4 - his 2 Timothy 1:9 - according to his

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives will all go into the boat.

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

Genesis 7:13
On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat.

Genesis 7:15
Every creature that had the breath of life came to Noah in the boat in groups of two.

Proverbs 22:3
The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get into trouble.

Matthew 24:38
In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving their children to be married, until the day Noah entered the boat.

Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving their children to be married until the day Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed them all.

Hebrews 6:18
These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he makes a promise, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. These things encourage us who came to God for safety. They give us strength to hold on to the hope we have been given.

Hebrews 11:7
It was by faith that Noah heard God's warnings about things he could not yet see. He obeyed God and built a large boat to save his family. By his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

1 Peter 3:20
who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for them while Noah was building the boat. Only a few people—eight in all—were saved by water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Deuteronomy 7:1. Those whom God has loved with an everlasting love, and as a fruit of it has chosen them in Christ before the world began to grace and glory, holiness and happiness, are but a small number, a little flock; though many are called, few are chosen; nor are they better than others, being by nature children of wrath even as others, and as to their outward circumstances the poor of this world.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Deuteronomy 6:10 note.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deuteronomy 7:13 and Exodus 34:13 note.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The fewest of all people - God chose for Himself Israel, when as yet but a single family, or rather a single person, Abraham; though there were already numerous nations and powerful kingdoms in the earth. Increase Deuteronomy 1:10; Deuteronomy 10:22 had taken place because of the very blessing of God spoken of in Deuteronomy 7:8.

Deuteronomy 7:10

Repayeth them that hate him to their face - i. e., punishes His enemies in their own proper persons.