Komentaryo sa Deuteronomio 7:6: Ramban, Ibn Ezra, Sforno & Tur HaArokh

THE ETERNAL THY G-D HATH CHOSEN THEE TO BE HIS OWN TREASURE. For you have no chief, overseer, or ruler³³¹Proverbs 6:7. among all the angels on high, but you are the treasure of G-d under His power, and, therefore, you should not go astray to serve idols from among the gods of the peoples. I have already mentioned this many times.³³²Leviticus 18:25; also above, 4:15, etc. This is the sense of the verse, The Eternal did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people,³³³Verse 7. for it would have been proper that the King’s [chosen people should] be the most numerous, as it is written, In the multitude of people is the king’s glory,³³⁴Proverbs 14:28. and that He appoint captains of the host at the head of the rest of the people.³³⁵See further, 20:9. But you are the fewest [of all peoples] — nevertheless He craved you and chose you!

beloved As explained above [comment on Exodus 19: 5], this word denotes something beautiful, the like of which can be found nowhere else (as in “the treasures of kings” [Ecclesiastes 2: 8]).

כי עם קדוש אתה, and it is not appropriate for you to desecrate your sanctity through women committed to alien deities, who will bear you children that are already genetically corrupted. It is this that the prophet Maleachi 2,11 had in mind when he spoke of כי חלל יהודה קדש ה' אשר אהב ובעל בת נכר,”for Yehudah profaned what is holy to the Lord, what He desires, by sleeping with daughters of alien gods.”