Deuteronomy 8:5
And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so doth the Lord thy God chasten thee.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
4Thy garment did not fall worn out from thee, and thy foot did not swell, these forty years.
6And thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31And in the wilderness which thou hast seen, where the Lord thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, on all the way that ye have gone, until ye came unto this place.
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, that ye do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty.
Psalms 94:12Happy is the man whom thou admonisheth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law:
Proverbs 3:12Because whomever the Lord loveth he admonisheth; and as a father who delighteth in [his] son.
Ezekiel 12:3But thou, O son of man, prepare for thyself vessels for going into exile, and wander away by day before their eyes; and thou shalt wander away from thy place to another place before their eyes: perhaps they may become aware that they are a rebellious family.
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 →