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 happened, in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him concerning them;

For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand. He knows your walking through this great wilderness. Jehovah your God has been with you these forty years. You have lacked nothing.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not become old on you, and your shoe has not become old on your foot.

To Him who led His people through the wilderness; for His mercy endures forever.

Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite.

To humble

But Hezekiah did not give again according to the good done to him, for his heart was lifted up. And there was wrath on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

And when he was in affliction, he sought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

so that He may turn man from his act, that He might hide pride from man.

I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye has seen You.

And the pride of man shall be bowed down, and the loftiness of men shall be made low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be abased, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.

Prove thee

who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you and so that He might prove you, to do you good in your latter end,

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold me.

And he cried to Jehovah. And Jehovah showed him a tree. And when he had cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a decree and a law for them, and there He tested them.

Then Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not.

But, in regard to the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon who sent to him to ask about the wonder that was done in the land, God left him in order to try him, to know all that was in his heart.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

To know

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

and did not need that anyone should testify of man. For He knew what was in man.

And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.

General references

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain silver. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

To Him who led His people through the wilderness; for His mercy endures forever.

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and begged Him, saying, Send her away, for she cries after us.