Deuteronomy 2:7
in Deuteronomy 2Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
KJV
For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 2
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThe Lord - hath blessed thee, etc. - God had given them much property, and therefore they had no need of plunder; they had gold and silver to buy the provender they needed, and therefore God would not permit them to take any thing by violence.
This site's exposition
he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness
Thou hast lacked nothing is the ground for the command to buy rather than seize, and Clarke reads it that way, since a people already given silver has no need of plunder. The same claim is pressed further at 8:4, where the raiment waxed not old and the foot did not swell, and Nehemiah 9:21 repeats it in a prayer many centuries later. He knoweth thy walking makes God the witness of the forty years and not only their cause.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Live by the faith and not by thy sword." 8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
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He hath known, that is, observed, or regarded with care and kindness, which that word often notes. Which experience of God's singular goodness to thee, should make thee rely on him still, and not use any unjust practice to procure what thou wantest or desirest.
For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine hands,.... Had increased their cattle and substance, even though in a wilderness: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness; every step they took, and he owned them and prospered them in all things in which they were concerned: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee: not only to protect and defend them, but to provide all things necessary for them.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Meddle not with them--that is, "which dwell in Seir" (De 2:4) --for there was another branch of Esau's posterity, namely, the Amalekites, who were to be fought against and destroyed (Ge 36:12;
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THE habit of numbering our days is a very admirable one. To do it rightly a man needs to be taught of God and if we have not been so taught, it is well to offer the prayer, "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." Some men number their cattle, number their acres, number their pounds, but do not number their days, or, if they do, they fail to draw the inference from them which both reason and Divine Grace suggest—that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
THE habit of numbering our days is a very admirable one. To do it rightly a man needs to be taught of God and if we have not been so taught, it is well to offer the prayer, "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." Some men number their cattle, number their acres, number their pounds, but do not number their days, or, if they do, they fail to draw the inference from them which both reason and Divine Grace suggest—that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. It is not wisdom to try to seem younger than you are, though I have known many attempt it. I have marked between census and census that the ages of certain persons have hardly increased 10 years, as I thought they would have done by the lapse of time. The age of many whom we admire is an inscrutable mystery. What there can be to be ashamed of in advancing years I am at a loss to know, for old age commands reverence—not ridicule. Why sorrow because another year of trial is over, another year of labor ended, another milestone on the road to Heaven left behind? Instead of regretting that we are so far on the voyage to the fair haven, we may rather rejoice and make our years, at least, as many as we can. If we pretend to be more juvenile than we are, uncharitable persons may possibly attribute it to vanity—it is a pity to give them such an opportunity. At the same time, ripe years are not to be trifled with. We have known some who have treated the fact that they are advancing in life with unbecoming levity—their gray hairs show that they are nearing the bounds of life, but they are as thoughtless as if they were yet in their minority—and so they are an incongruous miniature of the weakness of age and the frivolity of youth.
The words behind it
22 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּי֩ | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יְהוָ֨ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| בֵּֽרַכְךָ֗ | berakha | he has blessed you | H1288 → | 330 times |
| בְּכֹל֙ | bekhol | in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה | maaseh | [the] work of | H4639 → | 236 times |
| יָדֶ֔ךָ | yadekha | hand your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| יָדַ֣ע | yada' | he has known | H3045 → | 945 times |
| לֶכְתְּךָ֔ | lekhtekha | walking you | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַמִּדְבָּ֥ר | hamidbar | the wilderness | H4057 → | 270 times |
| הַגָּדֹ֖ל | hagadol | <the> great | H1419 → | 526 times |
| הַזֶּ֑ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| זֶ֣ה׀ | zeh | this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| אַרְבָּעִ֣ים | ʾarbaim | forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| שָׁנָ֗ה | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
| יְהוָ֤ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| עִמָּ֔ךְ | ʾimakh | [has been] with you | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| חָסַ֖רְתָּ | chasarta | you have lacked | H2637 → | 23 times |
| דָּבָֽר׃ | davar | anything | H1697 → | 1440 times |
כִּי֩for
kiH3588 →4482 times
יְהוָ֨הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָGod your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
בֵּֽרַכְךָ֗he has blessed you
berakhaH1288 →330 times
בְּכֹל֙in all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה[the] work of
maasehH4639 →236 times
יָדֶ֔ךָhand your
yadekhaH3027 →1618 times
יָדַ֣עhe has known
yada'H3045 →945 times
לֶכְתְּךָ֔walking you
lekhtekhaH1980 →1546 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַמִּדְבָּ֥רthe wilderness
hamidbarH4057 →270 times
הַגָּדֹ֖ל<the> great
hagadolH1419 →526 times
הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
זֶ֣ה׀this
zehH2088 →1180 times
אַרְבָּעִ֣יםforty
ʾarbaimH705 →136 times
שָׁנָ֗הyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
יְהוָ֤הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙God your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
עִמָּ֔ךְ[has been] with you
ʾimakhH5973 →1050 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
חָסַ֖רְתָּyou have lacked
chasartaH2637 →23 times
דָּבָֽר׃anything
davarH1697 →1440 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 90:17May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!
it leads to
- Proverbs 16:3
Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
- 1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
- Job 22:28
Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
- Isaiah 26:12
O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.
- Proverbs 16:3
Through
Deuteronomy 29:5For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 8:4
Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 8:2
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…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 9:21
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
- Deuteronomy 8:4
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1179: “Forty Years” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.