Deuteronomy 7:17

If thou say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I am: how can I drive them out?

Targum Onkelos

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

16And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the Lord thy God will give up to thee; thine eye shall not have pity upon them, nor shalt thou serve their idols, for that will be a stumbling-block to thee.

18Thou shalt not be afraid of them; remembering thou shalt remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharoh and all Mizraim;

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Cross References

Numbers 13:32And they gave forth an evil report (name) about the land which they had explored to the children of Israel, saying: The country which we have passed through to search it, is a land that killeth its inhabitants;

Numbers 33:53And you shall cast out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell in it; for I have given you the land to inherit.

Deuteronomy 8:17And (lest) thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand have gathered to me these possessions:

Deuteronomy 18:21And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

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 →

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