Deuteronomy 7:6-7

6For you are 1a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be 2a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the 3earth.

7“4The Lord did not 5make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples,