Deuteronomy 8:1-10

Do Not Forget the LORD

1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors.
2 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.
7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills;
8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;
9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

Cross References 24

  • 1. Deuteronomy 4:1
  • 2. S Exodus 19:5; Job 36:11; Psalms 16:11; Ezekiel 20:19
  • 3. Deuteronomy 29:5; Psalms 136:16; Amos 2:10
  • 4. S Genesis 22:1
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 36:12; Psalms 44:9; Proverbs 18:12; Isaiah 2:11; Jeremiah 44:10
  • 6. S Exodus 16:4; Ex 16:12,14,35
  • 7. 1 Kings 8:36; Psalms 25:5; Psalms 94:12; Psalms 119:171
  • 8. ver 9; S Genesis 3:19; Job 23:12; Psalms 104:15; Proverbs 28:21; Isaiah 51:14; Jeremiah 42:14
  • 9. Job 22:22; Psalms 119:13; Psalms 138:4
  • 10. S Exodus 16:2-3; Matthew 4:4*; Luke 4:4*
  • 11. Deuteronomy 29:5; Nehemiah 9:21
  • 12. Deuteronomy 4:36; 2 Samuel 7:14; Job 5:17; Job 33:19; Proverbs 3:11-12; Hebrews 12:5-11; Revelation 3:19
  • 13. S Exodus 33:13; 1 Kings 3:14; Psalms 81:13; Psalms 95:10
  • 14. Deuteronomy 5:33
  • 15. Psalms 106:24; Jeremiah 3:19; Ezekiel 20:6
  • 16. Deuteronomy 11:9-12; Jeremiah 2:7
  • 17. S Exodus 9:31
  • 18. S Genesis 49:11
  • 19. S Numbers 13:23; S 1 Kings 4:25
  • 20. Deuteronomy 32:13; Psalms 81:16
  • 21. S ver 3
  • 22. Judges 18:10
  • 23. Job 28:2
  • 24. Deuteronomy 6:10-12
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