Deuteronomy 7:17
If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
In Context
18Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
Cross References
Numbers 13:32And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
Numbers 33:53And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.
Deuteronomy 8:17Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
Deuteronomy 18:21And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?
Joshua 23:3You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.
Isaiah 47:8So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 7:13-26
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all… Read the whole commentary →