Deuteronomy 7:17
'When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? —
Young's Literal Translation
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 unto the sons of Israel, saying, 'The land into which we passed over to spy it, is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] men of stature;
Numbers 33:53and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land — to possess it.
Deuteronomy 8:17and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:
Deuteronomy 18:21'And when thou sayest in thy heart, How do we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken? —
Joshua 23:3and ye — ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done to all these nations because of you, for Jehovah your God [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 sit not 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 →