Parallel Verses
Amplified
“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I am; how can I dispossess them?’
New American Standard Bible
“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I
King James Version
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Holman Bible
“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’
International Standard Version
"You may say to yourselves, "These nations are more numerous than we are. How can we dispossess them?'
A Conservative Version
If thou shall say in thy 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?
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?
Darby Translation
If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?
Julia Smith Translation
When thou shalt say in thy heart, The nations many more than I, how shall I be able to dispossess them?
King James 2000
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"If you think in your heart, 'These nations [are] more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?'
Modern King James verseion
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I throw them out?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou shalt say in thine heart, 'These nations are more than I, how can I cast them out?'
NET Bible
If you think, "These nations are more numerous than I -- how can I dispossess them?"
New Heart English Bible
If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?"
The Emphasized Bible
Although thou mightest say in thy heart: More in number, are these nations than I, - how can, I dispossess them?
Webster
If thou shalt say in thy 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?"
Youngs Literal Translation
When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations are more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 7:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
16 And you shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will give over to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a [deadly] trap to you. 17 “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I am; how can I dispossess them?’ 18 you shall not be afraid of them; you shall remember [with confidence] what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt—
Phrases
Cross References
Numbers 33:53
and you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess.
Numbers 13:32
So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we went, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
Deuteronomy 8:17
Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’
Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there is no wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release (remission, pardon), is approaching,’ and your eye is hostile (unsympathetic) toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing [since he would not have to repay you]; for he may cry out to the Lord against you, and it will become a sin for you.
Deuteronomy 18:21
If you say in your heart, ‘How will we know and recognize the word which the Lord has not spoken?’
Joshua 17:16-18
The sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”
Isaiah 14:13
“But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the remote parts of the north.
Isaiah 47:8
“Now, then, hear this, you who live a luxuriant life,
You who dwell safely and securely,
Who say in your heart (mind),
‘I am [the queen], and there is no one besides me.
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor know the loss of children.’
Isaiah 49:21
“Then [Zion], you will say in your heart,
‘Who has borne me these children,
Since I have been bereaved of my children
And am barren, an exile and a wanderer?
And who has reared these?
Indeed, I was left alone;
Jeremiah 13:22
“And if you [wonder and] say in your heart,
‘Why have these things happened to me?’
It is because of the greatness and nature of your sin
That your skirts have been
And [like a barefoot slave] your heels have been wounded.
Luke 9:47
But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and had him stand beside Him,