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Deuteronomy builds our anticipation. God’s people are on the brink of the promised land and Moses gathers them to give them God’s law. Because of Israel’s sin, a whole generation of Israelites was not allowed to enter the promised land. So, after that generation passed, Moses, the leader of the Israelites, gathers the Israelites to speak ...
Gerald Gerbrandt: Chapter 8 picks up the theme of blessing and emphasizes the goodness of the Promised Land. It is a land of great natural resources, a land in which they will become wealthy, a land in which they will be filled and lack nothing. But this very abundance, this outcome of their election, has the possibility of dulling their memories.
8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; Read full chapter. Deuteronomy 8:8 in all English translations.
Deuteronomy 22:8. Thou shalt make a battlement — A fence or breast-work, because the roofs of their houses were made flat, that men might walk on them. Blood — The guilt of blood, by a man’s fall from the top of thy house, through thy neglect of this necessary provision. The Jews say, that by the equity of this law, they are obliged, and ...
5 You shall know in your heart, that just as a man chastises his son, so does the Lord, your God, chastise you. 6 And you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to go in His ways, and to fear Him. oil-producing olives: Heb. זֵית שֶׁמֶן, lit. olives of oil, [i.e.] olives that produce oil.
Deuteronomy 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; Deuteronomy 13:3
DeuteronomyChapter 8. 1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might ...
