Deuteronomy 7:1-9

1“1When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, 2seven nations greater and stronger than you, 2and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you 3defeat them, 4then you shall 5utterly destroy them. 6You shall make no covenant with them 7and show no favor to them. 3Furthermore, 8you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your 9daughters to 10their sons, nor shall you take 11their daughters for your 12sons. 4For 13they will turn your 14sons away from 15following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and 16He will quickly destroy you. 5But thus you shall do to them: 17you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their 18Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. 6For you are 19a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be 20a people for His 21own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the 22earth.

7“23The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but because the Lord loved you and kept the 24oath which He swore to your forefathers, 25the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of 26slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know therefore that the Lord your God, 27He is God, 28the faithful God, 29who keeps 30His covenant and 31His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who 32love Him and keep His commandments;