Deuteronomy 2:7

For your God YHWH has blessed you in all the work of your hands; He has known your walking in this great wilderness these forty years; your God YHWH [is] with you; you have not lacked anything.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6You buy food from them with money, and have eaten; and you also buy water from them with money, and have drunk.

8And we pass by from our brothers, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, by the way of the plain, by Elath and by Ezion-Gaber, and we turn and pass over the way of the wilderness of Moab;

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.

Genesis 26:12And Isaac sows in that land, and finds in that year a hundredfold, and YHWH blesses him;

Genesis 39:3and his lord sees that YHWH is with him, and all that he is doing YHWH is causing to prosper in his hand,

Exodus 16:35And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna [for] forty years, until their coming to the land to be inhabited; they have eaten the manna until their coming to the extremity of the land of Canaan.

Numbers 22:12and God says to Balaam, “You do not go with them; you do not curse the people, for it [is] blessed.”

Deuteronomy 8:4Your raiment has not worn out from off you, and your foot has not swelled these forty years,

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:2-8

The Seed of Esau and Lot Spared. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. 2 And the Lord spake unto me, saying, 3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: 5… Read the whole commentary →

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