Deuteronomy 8:5
And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so LORD thy God chastens thee.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Thy raiment did not grow old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
6And thou shall keep the commandments of LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness, where thou have seen how that LORD thy God bore thee, as a man bears his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place.
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which LORD thy God has forbidden thee.
Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teach out of thy law,
Proverbs 3:12For whom LORD loves he reproves, and he whips every son whom he receives (LXX/NT).
Ezekiel 12:3Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. And thou shall move from thy place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 8:2-10
A Charge to Israel; Israel's Retrospect. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and… Read the whole commentary →