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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 8
The Lord tested Israel in wilderness for forty years—Eating manna
taught them that man lives by word of God—Their raiment waxed not
old—The Lord chastened them—If Israel shall serve other gods,
they shall perish.
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1 ALL the commandments
which I acommand 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.
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD
thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to
ahumble thee, and to bprove thee,
to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no.
3 And he ahumbled thee, and suffered
thee to hunger, and fed thee with bmanna, which thou
knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that
cman doth not live by dbread only, but by
every eword that proceedeth out of the mouth of the
LORD doth man live.
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4 aThy raiment waxed not old upon
thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a
man achasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God
chasteneth thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the
LORD thy God, to awalk in his ways, and to fear him.
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7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a
agood bland, a land of brooks of water,
of cfountains and depths that spring out of valleys and
hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig
trees, and pomegranates; a land of aoil olive, and
honey;
9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without
scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones
are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig abrass.
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10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
11 Beware that thou aforget not the
LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his
bjudgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this
day:
12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
14 Then thine aheart be
blifted up, and thou cforget the LORD thy
God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage;
15 Who led thee through that great and terrible
wilderness, wherein were fiery aserpents, and
scorpions, and bdrought, where there was no water;
who brought thee forth cwater out of the rock of flint;
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16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with
amanna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble
thee, and that he might bprove thee, to do thee good at thy
latter end;
17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for
it is he that giveth thee power to get awealth, that
he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it
is this day.
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19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD
thy God, and awalk after other bgods, and
serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this
daya that ye shall
surely cperish.
20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before
your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be
aobedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
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19a I testify against you this day
Moses, as God's prophet, knew that though the Lord would give Israel the land
of promise and support them in all things according to thier obidence to the
Lord, that Israel would walk after other gods and thus Moses did testify
against them in his own day and age even before Israel did enter into the
promised land that they would be destroyed and scattered for having so turned
unto those other gods.
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