Deuteronomy 7:17

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

When you say in your heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them?

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

But if thou shouldest say in thine heart, This nation is greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?Gr. more.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֤י תֹאמַר֙ בִּלְבָ֣בְךָ֔ רַבִּ֛ים הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָאֵ֖לֶּה מִמֶּ֑נִּי אֵיכָ֥ה אוּכַ֖ל לְהוֹרִישָֽׁם׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν δὲ λέγῃς ἐν τῇ διανοίᾳ σου, ὅτι πολὺ τὸ ἔθνος τοῦτο ἢ ἐγώ, πῶς δυνήσομαι ἐξολοθρεῦσαι αὐτούς;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Numbers 33:53You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
• 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.
• Joshua 17:16–18“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.” So Joshua said to the house of…
• Deuteronomy 18:21You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
• 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?’”
• 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.’
• Deuteronomy 8:17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
• 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.
• 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…
• Luke 9:47But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.
• 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.

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