Deuteronomy 7:17
What does Deuteronomy 7:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 7:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
KJV
King James Version · 1611If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations <FI>are<Fi> more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?
Context
v.16And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
v.17This passage
v.18thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Luke 9:47
But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their heart, he took a little child, and set him by his side,
- Isaiah 14:13
And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
- Numbers 13:32
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
- Isaiah 49:21
Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
- Deuteronomy 8:17
and lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.
- Joshua 17:16
And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country 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 in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.
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