Deuteronomy 8:2

Detailed Stipulations

¹ All the commandments which I command you this day shall you be careful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers. ² And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³ And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of Jehovah man shall live.

Forty Years

In the Wilderness

Keep His Commandments

In The Desert

Jehovah

No

Amos 2:10

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.

Exodus 15:25

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.

Deuteronomy 8:16

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,

2 Chronicles 32:31

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.

Exodus 16:4

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.

Deuteronomy 1:3

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;

Deuteronomy 2:7

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.

Deuteronomy 29:5

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.

Psalm 136:16

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

Genesis 22:1

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

Deuteronomy 1:33

who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.

Deuteronomy 7:18

You shall not be afraid of them, but shall well remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

Deuteronomy 13:3

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.

2 Chronicles 32:25-26

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.

2 Chronicles 33:12

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

2 Chronicles 33:19

and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the Matters of the Seers.

Job 33:17

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

Job 42:5-6

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

Psalm 77:11

I will remember the works of Jehovah; surely I will remember Your wonders of old.

Psalm 81:7

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.

Psalm 106:7

Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Proverbs 17:3

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

Isaiah 2:17

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.

Jeremiah 17:9-10

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

Malachi 3:2-3

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.

Luke 18:14

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.

John 2:25

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

Ephesians 2:11-12

Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past were in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

James 1:3

knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.

James 4:6

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

James 4:10

Be humbled before the Lord, and He will lift you up.

1 Peter 1:7

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,

1 Peter 5:5-6

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.

2 Peter 1:12-13

Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

2 Peter 3:1-2

Beloved, I now write this second letter to you, in which I stir up your pure mind by reminder

Revelation 2:23

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.