Deuteronomy 8:2

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Summary

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.

Led thee

Amos 2:10

To humble

Prove thee

To know

Jeremiah 17:9

John 2:25

Revelation 2:23

General references

Bible References

Led thee

And it shall be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, in one to the Month, Moses spake to the sons of Israel according to all which Jehovah commanded him to them.

For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in every work of thy hand: he knew thy going in this great desert: this forty years Jehovah thy God with thee; thou didst not lack a word.

And I shall lead you forty years in the desert: your garments did not fall away from you, and thy shoe was not warn away from thy foot

To him causing his people to go into the desert: for his mercy is forever.

And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I will cause you to come into the desert forty years to possess the land of the Amorite.

To humble

And not according to the doing to him did Hezekiah turn back, for his heart was lifted up: and there will be wrath upon him, and upon Judah and upon Jerusalem.

And when straits were to him he besought the face of Jehovah his God, and he will humble himself greatly from before the God of his fathers.

To remove man from working, and he will bide pride from man.

By the hearing of the ear I heard of thee: and now mine eyes saw thee:

And the haughtiness of man was bowed down, and the height of man was humbled: and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.

And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Prove thee

He giving thee to eat manna in the desert which thy fathers knew not, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee to do thee good in thy lost state:

Thou shalt not hear to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

And it shall be after these words, and God tried Abraham, and he will say to him, Abraham: and he will say, Behold, here I.

And he will cry to Jehovah, and Jehovah will show him a tree, and he will cast into the waters, and the waters will become sweet: then he set to him a law and judgment, and there he tried him.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Behold me raining for you bread from the heavens; and the people shall go forth and shall gather the word of a day in its day, so that I shall try them, whether they will go in my law or not

Thus in the chiefs of Babel interceding, sending to him to seek out the sign which was in the land, God left him, to try him, to know all in his heart

Thou calledst in straits, and I will deliver thee; I will answer thee in the hiding place of thunder. I will prove thee at the water of strife. Silence.

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.

And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller.

Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

To know

The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him?

For also he had no need that any should testify concerning man: for he knew what was in man.

And her children will I kill in death; and all the churches shall know that I am he searching the reins and hearts: and I will give to you each according to our works.

General references

And my cup, the silver cup, thou shalt put in the sack's mouth of the small one, and the silver of his grain; and he will do according to the word which Joseph spake.

To him causing his people to go into the desert: for his mercy is forever.

Will ye not remember the former things? will ye not discern the things of old?

And he answered her not a word. And his disciples, having come, asked him, saying, Loose her; for she cries out after us.