Speak not thou in thine heart,.... Never once think within thyself, or give way to such a vain imagination, and please thyself with it:after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee; to make way for the Israelites, and put them into the possession of their land; which is to be ascribed not to them, but to the Lord:saying, for my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land; such a thought as this was not to be secretly cherished in their hearts, and much less expressed with their lips; nothing being more foreign from truth than this, and yet a notion they were prone to entertain.
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Deuteronomy 9:4
Deuteronomy 9:4
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