Deuteronomy 7:17
If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
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- Num 33:53 : 53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.
- Num 13:32 : 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.
- Deut 8:17 : 17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
- Deut 15:9 : 9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
- Deut 18:21 : 21 And if you say in your hearts, How are we to be certain that the word does not come from the Lord?
- Josh 17:16-18 : 16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel. 17 Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only, 18 For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the woodland and cut down ... its outskirts will be yours ... get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages ... strong.
- Isa 14:13 : 13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
- Isa 47:8 : 8 So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.
- Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
- Jer 13:22 : 22 And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.
- Luke 9:47 : 47 But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their hearts, he took a small child and put him by his side,
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- Deut 7:1-22 verses81%
1When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
2And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
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23Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.
- Deut 7:21-244 verses80%
21Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
22The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
23But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
24He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.
- Deut 7:18-192 verses79%
18Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
19The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.
- Deut 9:1-55 verses79%
1Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;
2A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.
3Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.
4And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.
5Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deut 12:29-302 verses78%
29When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;
30After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.
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16And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
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38Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.
- Judg 11:23-242 verses76%
23So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it?
24Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.
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1When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;
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5The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.
- Deut 31:3-53 verses74%
3The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.
4The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.
5The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.
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21See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.
- Deut 20:15-173 verses74%
15So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.
16But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:
17Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:
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53And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.
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15Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,
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6Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.
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9For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.
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29Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.
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19To send out from before you all those who are against you.
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30Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.
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24So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.
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25All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.
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7Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?
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14When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;
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31For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.
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11Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
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1When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.
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18For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the woodland and cut down ... its outskirts will be yours ... get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages ... strong.
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2And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.
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17Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
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55But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.
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2And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon.
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13Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
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27I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.