Deuteronomy 8:5
so that you would recognize in your heart that, just as a man educates his son, so has the Lord your God educated you.
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In The King James Version
In Context
6So may you keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and fear him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31And in the wilderness (as you yourselves saw), the Lord your God carried you, like a man who is accustomed to carrying his little son, along all the way that you walked, until you arrived at this place.’
Deuteronomy 4:23Be careful, lest you at some time forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he has formed with you, and lest you make for yourselves a graven likeness of those things which the Lord has prohibited to be made.
Job 5:17Blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not reject the chastisement of the Lord.
Proverbs 3:12For whomever the Lord loves, he corrects, and just as a father does with a son, he wins him over.
Ezekiel 12:3As for you, then, son of man, prepare for yourself the supplies for traveling far away, and travel away in the daytime in their sight. And you shall travel from your place to another place in their sight, so that perhaps they may consider it. For they are a provoking 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 →