Deuteronomy 8:5
And thou shalt know in thy heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten thee.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
6And thou shalt keep the commands of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord thy God commanded thee.
Job 5:17But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; 1 And reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty. 1
Proverbs 3:12For whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, 1 And scourges every son whom he receives. 1
Ezekiel 12:3Thou therefore, son of man, prepare thyself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and thou shalt be led into captivity from thy place into another place in their sight; that they may see that it is 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 →