The Love of God for the Hebrews
"but because the LORD loved you"
Deuteronomy 7:8
God promised that He would love the Hebrews no matter what
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
7 - The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:
8 - But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.