Deuteronomy 8:5
You will think about in your heart, how, as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
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6You will keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, so that you might walk in his ways and honor him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31and also in the wilderness, where you have seen how Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, everywhere you went until you came to this place.'
Deuteronomy 4:23Pay attention to yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden you to make.
Job 5:17See, blessed is the man whom God corrects; 1 therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. 1
Psalms 94:12Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh, 1 the one whom you teach from your law. 1
Proverbs 3:12for Yahweh disciplines those he loves, 1 as a father deals with a son who pleases him. 1
Ezekiel 12:3Therefore as for you, son of man, prepare your things for exile, and begin going out by day in their sight, for I will exile you in their sight from your place to another place. Perhaps they will begin to see, though they are a rebellious 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 →