In Deuteronomy, we see that God expresses His deep love for Israel and has asked that they love Him with all their heart, soul, and strength.
Deut. 4:31, 37-39 NASB 1995: God will not forget His covenant with Israel. He loved Israel’s Fathers and chose their descendants to be His people. He uses His great power to give Israel the land of Canaan for an inheritance.
31 “For the Lord your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers which He swore to them. 37 “Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,
38 driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. 39 “Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.”
Deut. 6:4-5 NASB 1995: God asks that Israel love Him with all their heart, soul, and strength.
4 “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! 5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”;
Deut. 7:6-9 NASB 1995: God sets His love on Israel, and because of His love He keeps His oath to them. He is the faithful God who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousand generations to those who love Him.
6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
Deut. 10:12-15 NASB 1995: It’s amazing how clearly God states again and again His deep love for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. He asks Israel to be in awe of Him, to walk in His ways, and to love Him.
12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the LORD’S commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good? 14 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it. 15 Yet the LORD set His affection on your fathers, to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, you over all the other peoples, as it is this day.
Deut. 11:12 NASB 1995: The eyes of the Lord are always on Israel.
“a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.”