God’s Word Translation
Deuteronomy 8:5
5Learn this lesson by heart: The Lord your God was disciplining you as parents discipline their children.
Deuteronomy 8:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
- New International Version (NIV)Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
Context of Deuteronomy 8:5
3So he made you suffer from hunger and then fed you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had seen before. He did this to teach you that a person cannot live on bread alone but on every word that the Lord speaks. 4Your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t swell these past 40 years. Learn this lesson by heart: The Lord your God was disciplining you as parents discipline their children. 6Obey the commands of the Lord your God. Follow his directions, and fear him. 7The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that don’t dry up. There are springs and underground streams flowing through the valleys and hills.
Read all of Deuteronomy 8Deuteronomy 8:5 word by word
וְיָדַעְתָּ֖ עִם־לְבָבֶ֑ךָ כִּ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יְיַסֵּ֥ר אִישׁ֙ אֶת־בְּנ֔וֹ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ מְיַסְּרֶֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 8:5
- Deuteronomy 4:9However, be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you don’t forget the things which you have seen with your own eyes. Don’t let them fade from your memory as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
- Isaiah 1:3Oxen know their owners, and donkeys know where their masters feed them. But Israel doesn’t know ⌞its owner⌟. My people don’t understand ⌞who feeds them⌟.
- Ezekiel 12:3“Son of man, pack your bags as if you were going into exile. Let the people see you leave in the daylight. March like a captive from your place to another place as they watch. Maybe they will understand, even though they are rebellious people.
- Ezekiel 18:28He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.
- 2 Samuel 7:14I will be his Father, and he will be my Son. If he sins, I will punish him with a rod and with blows inflicted by people.
- Job 5:17“Blessed is the person whom God corrects. That person should not despise discipline from the Almighty.
- Psalms 89:32then with a rod I will punish their rebellion and their crimes with beatings.
- Psalms 94:12O Lord, blessed is the person whom you discipline and instruct from your teachings.
- Proverbs 3:12because the Lord warns the one he loves, even as a father warns a son with whom he is pleased.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32But when the Lord judges us, he disciplines us so that we won’t be condemned along with the rest of the world.
- Hebrews 12:5You have forgotten the encouraging words that God speaks to you as his children: “My child, pay attention when the Lord disciplines you. Don’t give up when he corrects you.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 8:5
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-20After Israel settled in the land, they might begin to think that their success came from their own strength and skill. This is a common human tendency. Moses warned them not to become proud or congratulate themselves. They must remember that God alone gives prosperity and success. All that they achieve comes from him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-201. All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live--In all the wise arrangements of our Creator duty has been made inseparably connected with happiness; and the earnest enforcement of the divine law which Moses was making to the Israelites was in order to secure their being a happy (because a moral and religious) people: a course of prosperity is often called "life" (Ge 17:18; Pr 3:2). live, and multiply--This…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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