Deuteronomy 7:17
When you say in your heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them?
Literal Standard 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 13:32and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, “The land into which we passed over to spy it out is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] men of stature;
Numbers 33:53and you have possessed the land and dwelt in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.
Deuteronomy 8:17and you have said in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have made this wealth for me.
Deuteronomy 18:21And when you say in your heart, How do we know the word which YHWH has not spoken?
Joshua 23:3and you have seen all that your God YHWH has done to all these nations because of you, for your God YHWH [is] He who is fighting for you;
Isaiah 47:8And now, hear this, O luxurious one, || Who is sitting confidently—Who is saying in her heart, I [am], and none else, || I do not sit [as] a widow, nor know bereavement.
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 →