Deuteronomy 7:17
If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
18Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,
Cross References
Numbers 13:32But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.
Numbers 33:53Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.
Deuteronomy 8:17Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.
Deuteronomy 18:21And if in silent thought thou answer: How shall I know the word that the Lord hath not spoken?
Joshua 23:3And you see all that the Lord your God hath done to all the nations round about, how he himself hath fought for you:
Isaiah 47:8And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall 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 →