Deuteronomy 8:5
You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4Your clothing did not 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 bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place."
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved 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, Yah,and teach out of your Law;
Proverbs 3:12for whom the Lord loves, he reproves;even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Ezekiel 12:3Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight; and 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 →