Deuteronomy 7:17
If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more than I am, so how will I be able to destroy them?’
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
Cross References
Numbers 13:32Yet truly, the others, who had been with him, were saying, “By no means are we able to ascend to this people, because they are stronger than we are.”
Numbers 33:53cleansing the land and living in it. For I have given it you as a possession,
Deuteronomy 8:17Otherwise, you might say in your heart: ‘My own strength, and the power of my own hand, have brought forth all these things for me.’
Deuteronomy 18:21But if, in silent thought, you respond: “How will I be able to recognize a word which the Lord has not spoken?”
Joshua 23:3And you yourselves discern all that the Lord your God has done with all the surrounding nations, in what manner he himself has fought for you.
Isaiah 47:8And now, hear these things, you who are delicate and have confidence, who say in your heart: “I am, and there is no one greater than me. I will not sit as a widow, and I will not know barrenness.”
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 →