Deuteronomy 8:5
and you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, your God YHWH is disciplining you,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
4Your raiment has not worn out from off you, and your foot has not swelled these forty years,
6and you have kept the commands of your God YHWH, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness where you have seen that your God YHWH has carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have gone until your coming to this place.
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God YHWH which He has made with you, and have made a carved image for yourselves, a likeness of anything [concerning] which your God YHWH has charged you;
Job 5:17Behold, the blessedness of mortal man, || God reproves him: And do not despise the discipline of the Mighty,
Psalms 94:12O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,
Proverbs 3:12For whom YHWH loves He reproves, || Even as a father the son He is pleased with.
Ezekiel 12:3And you, son of man, make your vessels of removal, and remove by day before their eyes, and you have removed from your place to another place before their eyes, it may be they consider, for they [are] a house of rebellion.
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 →