Deuteronomy 8:5
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
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In Context
4Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
6You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness where you have seen how that the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
Deuteronomy 4:23Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law,
Proverbs 3:12for whom the LORD loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Ezekiel 12:3“Therefore, you son of man, prepare your baggage for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, 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 →