Deuteronomy 7:17 “You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how…”

Deuteronomy 7:17

You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

World English Bible

If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

American Standard Version

If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Geneva Bible 1599

If thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?

Darby Translation

If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?

Young's Literal Translation

'When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? —

Bible in Basic English

If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

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Cross references

“thou shalt”

Deuteronomy 8:17 Deuteronomy 15:9 Deuteronomy 18:21 Isaiah 14:13 Isaiah 47:8 Isaiah 49:21

Deuteronomy 8:17 · BSB

You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

Deuteronomy 15:9 · BSB

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against…

Deuteronomy 18:21 · BSB

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

Isaiah 14:13 · BSB

You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

Isaiah 47:8 · BSB

So 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.’

Isaiah 49:21 · BSB

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

“These nations”

Numbers 13:32 Numbers 33:53 Joshua 17:16–18

Numbers 13:32 · BSB

So 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 33:53 · BSB

You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Joshua 17:16–18 · BSB

“The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

18But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

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