Deuteronomy 7:17
If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 13:32And they spread an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
Numbers 33:53And ye shall drive out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it.
Deuteronomy 8:17and thou say in thy heart: 'My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.'
Deuteronomy 18:21And if thou say in thy heart: 'How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?'
Joshua 23:3And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God, He it is that hath fought for you.
Isaiah 47:8Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart: 'I am, and there is none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children';
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 →