Deuteronomy 8:3
And He humbles you, and causes you to hunger, and causes you to eat the manna (which you have not known, even your fathers have not known), in order to cause you to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything proceeding [from] the mouth of YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Your raiment has not worn out from off you, and your foot has not swelled these forty years,
Cross References
Exodus 16:2And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
Exodus 16:12“I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, Between the evenings you eat flesh, and in the morning you are satisfied [with] bread, and you have known that I [am] your God YHWH.”
Deuteronomy 29:5And I cause you to go in a wilderness [for] forty years; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and your shoe has not worn away from off your foot;
Psalms 37:3Trust in YHWH, and do good, || Dwell [in] the land, and enjoy faithfulness,
Psalms 104:27All of them look to You, || To give their food in its season.
Matthew 4:4But He answering said, “It has been written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word coming forth from the mouth of God.”
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 →