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    Deuteronomy 8

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    For forty years in the wilderness, Israel’s clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell—a remarkably practical sort of miracle, tucked between manna and the testing of hearts.

    The wilderness and the good landvv. 1–10

    The LORD led Israel through forty years of wilderness to humble and test them, feeding them with manna and preserving their clothing and feet. Then the scene changes from hunger to abundance: brooks, springs, grain, vines, fruit, oil, honey, iron, copper, and food without scarcity. The proper response to a full stomach is not supplied by the stomach itself, but by remembrance.

    The danger of a full housevv. 11–20

    The warning begins with fine houses, multiplying herds, swelling stores of silver and gold, and the heart quietly taking credit for the whole arrangement. Yet the same LORD who brought Israel out of Egypt led them through snakes, scorpions, thirst, rock-borne water, and manna. Forgetting Him for other gods ends not in a gentle change of scenery but in perishing like the nations destroyed before them.

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    1. Deut 8:1You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

    2. Deut 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

    3. Deut 8:3He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

    4. Deut 8:4Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

    5. Deut 8:5So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

    6. Deut 8:6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.

    7. Deut 8:7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

    8. Deut 8:8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

    9. Deut 8:9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

    10. Deut 8:10When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

    11. Deut 8:11Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

    12. Deut 8:12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

    13. Deut 8:13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

    14. Deut 8:14then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    15. Deut 8:15He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

    16. Deut 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

    17. Deut 8:17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

    18. Deut 8:18But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

    19. Deut 8:19If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

    20. Deut 8:20Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 18Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
    • 18Hosea 2:8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
    • 3Matthew 4:4But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
    • 18Deuteronomy 7:8But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
    • 18Psalms 127:1–2A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
    • 18Deuteronomy 7:12If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.
    • 3Luke 4:4But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”
    • 18Psalms 144:1Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
    • 2James 1:3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
    • 4Deuteronomy 29:5For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
    • 4Nehemiah 9:21For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
    • 5Revelation 3:19Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
    • 3Hebrews 13:5–6Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
    • 1Deuteronomy 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
    • 2Exodus 16:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
    • 21 Peter 1:7so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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