Deuteronomy 8:1-9

Remember the Lord Your God

1 "The whole commandment that I command you today ¹you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.

2 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you ²these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ³testing you ⁴to know what was in your heart, ⁵whether you would keep his commandments or not.

3 And he humbled you and ⁶let you hunger and ⁷fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that ⁸man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word^[a] that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

4 ⁹Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.

5 Know then in your heart that, ¹⁰as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.

6 So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, ¹¹a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,

8 a land of wheat and barley, ¹²of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

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Deuteronomy 8:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 8

In this chapter Moses repeats the exhortation to observe the commands of God, and urges the Israelites to it, from the consideration of the great and good things God had done for them in the wilderness, and even in those instances which were chastisements, and were of an humbling nature, De 8:1-6, and on the consideration of the blessings of the good land they were going to possess, De 8:7-9 for which blessings they are exhorted to be thankful, and are cautioned against pride of heart through them, and forgetfulness of God, and of his goodness to them while in the wilderness, and when brought into the land of Canaan, which they were to ascribe to his power and goodness, and not their own, De 8:10-18, and the chapter is concluded with a warning against idolatry, lest they perish through it as the nations before them, De 8:19,20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 5:32, 33; Deuteronomy 6:1-3
2. Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 29:5; Amos 2:10
3. ver. 16; Exodus 15:25
4. [2 Chronicles 32:31]
5. [Exodus 16:4; Judges 3:4]
6. Exodus 16:2, 3
7. Ex. 16:12, 14, 15, 35; [Numbers 11:6-9; Numbers 21:5]
8. Cited Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; [John 6:49-51]
9. Deuteronomy 29:5; Nehemiah 9:21
10. Proverbs 3:12; Hebrews 12:5, 6; [2 Samuel 7:14; Proverbs 29:17; Hosea 10:10; Revelation 3:19]
11. Deuteronomy 11:10-12
12. [Numbers 20:5]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew by all

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