"If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations {are} more than I; how can I dispossess them?" — Deuteronomy 7:17

Deuteronomy 7:17 · KJV

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

— Deuteronomy 7:17

And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that {will be} a snare unto thee.

Verse 18

Thou shalt not be afraid of them: {but} shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

Deuteronomy 7 — Context

And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all {them} that hate thee.

And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that {will be} a snare unto thee.

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

Thou shalt not be afraid of them: {but} shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

Cross References

Numbers 13:32

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, {is} a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it {are} men of a great stature. {men...: Heb. men of statures}

Numbers 33:53

And ye shall dispossess {the inhabitants} of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

Joshua 17:16-18

And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, {both they} who {are} of Bethshean and her towns, and {they} who {are} of the valley of Jezreel.

Luke 9:47

And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,

Deuteronomy 8:17

And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of {mine} hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee. {thought: Heb. word} {wicked: Heb. Belial}

Deuteronomy 18:21

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

Isaiah 47:8

Therefore hear now this, {thou that art} given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I {am}, and none else beside me; I shall not sit {as} a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: