Deuteronomy 7:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?””
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“You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
King James Version · Public Domain“If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations <FI>are<Fi> more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 7:17 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 21:34But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
- Numbers 33:53You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
- Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
- Deuteronomy 8:17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
- Deuteronomy 15:9Be 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 you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- Deuteronomy 18:21You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
- Joshua 17:16“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.”
- 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 14:13You 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 47:8So 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.’
- Isaiah 49:21Then 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?’”
- Jeremiah 13:22And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
- Luke 9:47But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).