Deuteronomy 7:17
If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
World English Bible Updated
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 13:32They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
Numbers 33:53You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.
Deuteronomy 8:17and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
Deuteronomy 18:21You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?”
Joshua 23:3You have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Isaiah 47:8“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will 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 →