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Deuteronomychapter 8

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A.Humbled, hungry, and fed with mannavv. 1-6

1 You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers. 2 Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. 3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 4 Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. 6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.

B.A good land — eat and bless the LORDvv. 7-10

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper. 10 When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

C.My power and my hand got me this wealthvv. 11-20

11 Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. 16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper. 17 You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.” 18 But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day. 19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. 20 Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.

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Chapter summary

‘Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD’.

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‘Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD’. Moses remembers the manna, the clothes that did not wear out, the feet that did not swell. The wilderness was a school. Humbling, proving, teaching dependence. A good land is coming. Brooks, fountains, wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, oil olive, honey; iron and brass for tools. Beware of full stomachs: ‘beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God … lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein … thine heart be lifted up’. Jesus' first wilderness answer comes from this chapter (Matt 4:4).

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Law · Moses — Deuteronomy overview

  • A. 1–6 Humbled, hungry, and fed with manna
  • B. 7–10 A good land — eat and bless the LORD
  • C. 11–20 My power and my hand got me this wealth
Top cross-references8 chapters ▾
  • Deuteronomy 42 verses
    • Deuteronomy 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
    • Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
    • Read Deuteronomy 4 →
  • Deuteronomy 52 verses
    • Deuteronomy 5:32So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
    • Deuteronomy 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
    • Read Deuteronomy 5 →
  • James 12 verses
    • James 1:3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
    • James 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
    • Read James 1 →
  • Deuteronomy 82 verses
    • Deuteronomy 8:3He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
    • Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
    • Read Deuteronomy 8 →
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  • Hosea 21 verse
    • Hosea 2:8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
    • Read Hosea 2 →
  • 1 Corinthians 41 verse

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.