because

Deuteronomy 7:7-9
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not by your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God will drive out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

Psalm 105:6-10
O offspring of Abraham His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. . . .

Isaiah 41:8, 9
But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend-- . . .

Jeremiah 31:1
"At that time, " declares the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people."

Malachi 1:2
"I have loved you, " says the LORD. But you ask, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved,

Luke 1:72, 73
to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, . . .

Romans 9:5
Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

and brought

Exodus 13:3, 9, 14
So Moses told the people, "Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten. . . .

in his sight

2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war."

Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

Psalm 34:15
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

with his

Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation--by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors--as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?

Psalm 114:1-6
When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue, . . .

Psalm 136:10-15
He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever. . . .

Isaiah 51:9-11
Awaken, awaken, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of long ago. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon? . . .

Isaiah 63:11, 12
Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them, . . .