Deuteronomy 7:17

Detailed Stipulations

¹⁶ And you shall devour all of the peoples [that] Yahweh your God [is] giving to you; {you shall not pity them}, and you shall not serve their gods, [which] will be a snare for you. ¹⁷ "If you think in your heart, 'These nations [are] more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?' ¹⁸ [then remember] you must not be afraid of them; you must well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all [of] Egypt:

Drive Them Out

Numbers 33:53

you will dispossess the land and live in it because I have given the land to you to possess it.

Numbers 13:32

And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the {Israelites}, saying, "The land that we went through to explore [is] a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst [are] {men of great size}.

Deuteronomy 8:17

And you may think in your heart, 'My strength and the might of my hand {acquired this wealth for} me.'

Deuteronomy 15:9

{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.

Deuteronomy 18:21

And if you say {to yourself}, 'How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken to him?'

Joshua 17:16-18

And the descendants of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us, and all of the Canaanites living in the land of the valley [have] chariots of iron, those in Beth-shean and its villages, and those in the Jezreel Valley."

Isaiah 14:13

And you yourself said in your heart, 'I will ascend [to] heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on [the] mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon;

Isaiah 47:8

Therefore now hear this, luxuriant [one] who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I [am], and besides me [there is] no one. I shall not sit [as] a widow, and I shall not know [the] loss of children."

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say in your heart, "Who has borne me these?" And, "I [was] bereaved and barren, exiled and thrust away; so who raised these? Look at me! I was left alone; {where have these come from}?"

Jeremiah 13:22

And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these [things] happened to me?' Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence.

Luke 9:47

But Jesus, [because he] knew the thoughts of their hearts, took hold of a child and had him stand beside him