Deuteronomy 7:17
You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
Majority Standard Bible
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 13:32So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
Numbers 33:53You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
Deuteronomy 8:17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
Deuteronomy 18:21You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
Joshua 23:3“and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
Isaiah 47:8So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or 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 →