Deuteronomy 10:15
Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
Deuteronomy 4:37
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
Numbers 14:8
If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
The LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
Romans 9:13-23
Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."