Deuteronomy 8:5
You shall also consider in yours heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
4Your raiment waxed not old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bare you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that all of you went, until all of you came into this place.
Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest all of you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
Proverbs 3:12For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
Ezekiel 12:3Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be 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 →