Deuteronomy 2:7

For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness. For these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”'

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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 will purchase food from them for money, so that you may eat; you will also buy water from them for money, so that you may drink.

8So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, from Elath and from Ezion Geber. Then we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 26:12Isaac planted crops in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, because Yahweh blessed him.

Genesis 39:3His master saw that Yahweh was with him and that Yahweh prospered everything that he did.

Exodus 16:35The people of Israel ate manna forty years until they came to inhabited land. They ate it until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

Numbers 22:12God replied to Balaam, “You must not go with those men. You must not curse the people of Israel because they have been blessed.”

Deuteronomy 8:4Your clothing did not wear out and fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those 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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