5. But this is what you must do to these people: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols.
6. You are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He chose you to be his own special possession out of all the nations on earth.
7. The Lord set his heart on you and chose you, even though you didn’t outnumber all the other people. You were the smallest of all nations.