Parallel Verses
Amplified
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; it was He who brought water for you out of the flinty rock.
New American Standard Bible
He led you through
King James Version
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Holman Bible
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous
International Standard Version
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who led you through the vast and dangerous desert, that parched land without water, with its poisonous snakes and scorpions. He brought water out of solid rock for you,
A Conservative Version
who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness--fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water--who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint,
American Standard Version
who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Bible in Basic English
Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
Darby Translation
who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, a wilderness of fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Julia Smith Translation
He causing thee to go in the great and fearful desert, the fiery serpent and the scorpion, and a thirsty land, where is no water: he bringing forth to thee water from the rock of flint;
King James 2000
Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty land, where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
Lexham Expanded Bible
the one leading you in the great and terrible desert [infested] with {dangerous} snakes and scorpions and parched ground, where there is no water, [and] the one bringing out water for you from flint rock,
Modern King James verseion
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground, where there was no water, who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and which led thee in the wilderness both great and terrible with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst where was no water, which brought the water out of the rock of flint:
NET Bible
and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and
New Heart English Bible
who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
The Emphasized Bible
who caused thee to journey through the great and terrible desert, of fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty wastes where was no water, - who brought forth for thee water out of the flinty rock;
Webster
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drouth, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
World English Bible
who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
Youngs Literal Translation
who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness -- burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst -- where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;
Themes
Desert » An arid region having only sparse vegetation
journey of israel through the Desert » Difficulty and danger of
Deserts » Described as » Dry and without water
Deserts » Infested with serpents
Drought » General reference to
Meteorology » Drought, general references to
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Leading saints
Reptiles » Mentioned in scripture » Flying fiery serpent
Reptiles » Mentioned in scripture » Scorpion
Rock » Struck by moses for water
Rocks » Often composed of flint
Scorpion » A venomous insect common in the wilderness through which the people of israel journeyed
Scorpions » Abounded in the great desert
Serpent » Fiery (poisonous), sent as a plague upon the israelites
Topics
Interlinear
Yalak
Gadowl
Mayim
Yatsa'
Mayim
References
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Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 8:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
14 then your heart will become lifted up [by self-conceit and arrogance] and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 15 He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; it was He who brought water for you out of the flinty rock. 16 He fed you manna in the wilderness, [a substance] which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you [by dependence on Him] and that He might test you, to do good [things] for you at the end.
Cross References
Numbers 20:11
Then Moses raised his hand [in anger] and with his rod he struck the rock twice [instead of speaking to the rock as the Lord had commanded]. And the water poured out abundantly, and the congregation and their livestock drank [fresh water].
Numbers 21:6
Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died.
Psalm 114:8
Who turned the rock into a pool of water,
The flint into a fountain of water.
Deuteronomy 1:19
“Then we set out from Horeb (Sinai), and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the
Jeremiah 2:6
“They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord
Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of the deep darkness [of the shadow of death],
Through a land that no man passed through
And where no man lived?’
Hosea 13:5
I knew and regarded you and cared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.
Exodus 17:5-6
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Deuteronomy 32:13
“He made him (Israel) ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
And He made him suck honey from the rock,
And [olive] oil from the flinty rock,
Psalm 78:15-16
He split rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.
Psalm 105:41
He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.
Psalm 136:16
To Him who led His people through the wilderness,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
Isaiah 35:7
And the burning sand (mirage) will become a pool [of water]
And the thirsty ground springs of water;
In the haunt of jackals,
Grass becomes reeds and
Isaiah 63:12-14
Who caused His glorious arm and infinite power to go at the right hand of Moses,
Dividing the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,
1 Corinthians 10:4
and all [of them] drank the same