Deuteronomy 8

Remember the Lord Your God

1 "The whole commandment that I command you today v you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you w these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, x testing you y to know what was in your heart, z whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3 And he humbled you and a let you hunger and b fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that c man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word 1 that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 d Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that, e as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. 6 So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, f a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, g of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

11 "Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, 12 h lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 i then your heart be lifted up, and you j forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 15 who k led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, l with its fiery serpents and scorpions m and thirsty ground where there was no water, n who brought you water out of the flinty rock, 16 who fed you in the wilderness with o manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, p to do you good in the end. 17 Beware q lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.' 18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for r it is he who gives you power to get wealth, s that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, t I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. 20 Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, u so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:1
    And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
    Deuteronomy 5:32 - 33
    You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
    Deuteronomy 6:1 - 3
    Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:3
    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them.
    Deuteronomy 2:7
    For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."
    Deuteronomy 29:5
    I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
    Amos 2:10
    Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:16
    Who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
    Exodus 15:25
    And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them.
  4. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:31
    And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 16:4
    Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
    Judges 3:4
    They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 16:2 - 3
    And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
  7. Cross References
    Exodus 16:12
    "I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.'"
    Exodus 16:14 - 15
    And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.
    Exodus 16:35
    The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
    Numbers 11:6 - 9
    But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.
    Numbers 21:5
    And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.
  8. Cross References
    Matthew 4:4
    But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'
    Luke 4:4
    And Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'
    John 6:49 - 51
    Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:5
    I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
    Nehemiah 9:21
    Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
  10. Cross References
    Proverbs 3:12
    For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a f...
    Hebrews 12:5 - 6
    And have you forgotten the exhortation that add...
    2 Samuel 7:14
    I will be to him a father, and he shall be to m...
    Proverbs 29:17
    Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;...
    Hosea 10:10
    When I please, I will discipline them, and nati...
    Revelation 3:19
    Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so...
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 11:10 - 12
    For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 20:5
    And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.
  13. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 6:11 - 12
    And houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant - and when you eat and are full.
    Deuteronomy 28:47
    Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things.
    Deuteronomy 32:15
    But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
    Proverbs 30:9
    Lest I be full and deny you and say, "Who is the Lord ?" or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
    Hosea 13:6
    But when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
  14. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 4:7
    For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
  15. Cross References
    Psalms 78:11
    They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
    Psalms 106:21
    They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt.
  16. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 1:19
    Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.
  17. Cross References
    Numbers 21:6
    Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
    Isaiah 30:6
    An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.
  18. Cross References
    Hosea 13:5
    It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 17:6
    Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
    Numbers 20:11
    And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
    Psalms 78:15
    He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
    Psalms 114:8
    Who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.
    Deuteronomy 32:13
    He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
  20. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:3
    And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
    Exodus 16:15
    When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.
  21. Cross References
    Jeremiah 24:5 - 7
    Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
    Hebrews 12:11
    For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
  22. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:4
    Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.
  23. Cross References
    Proverbs 10:22
    The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
    Hosea 2:8
    And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
  24. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:8
    But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
    Deuteronomy 7:12
    And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
  25. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:26
    I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
    Deuteronomy 30:18
    I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
  26. Cross References
    Daniel 9:11 - 12
    All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
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