Deuteronomy 10:14-15 - Renewed Exhortations To Obedience.

To love and serve the Lord, Israel was specially bound, because of God's love to them and choice of them to be his people. He, the Lord and Proprietor of the universe, was free to choose any of the nations he pleased, and needed not the service of any, but of his free grace he chose Israel, in whose fathers he had delight, to love them (cf. Exodus 19:5 ). The heaven and the heaven of heavens ; the highest heavens, all that may be called heaven, with all that it contains. Delight ("set his eve upon," Deuteronomy 7:7 ); literally, cleaved to , was attached to. "Affection, love, choice, the three moments prompting from the innermost impulses to the historical act" (Lange).