For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
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For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
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For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
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For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.'
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 2:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 9:21 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
- Luke 22:35 He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”
- Deuteronomy 8:2-4 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth. Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 29:5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
- Psalms 90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.
- Genesis 12:2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Genesis 24:35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Job 23:10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
- Psalms 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
- Genesis 26:12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Genesis 30:27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”
- Genesis 39:5 From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
- Psalms 1:6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
- John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain And given thee means, wherewith thou mayest make recompense:…
And given thee means, wherewith thou mayest make recompense: also God will direct thee by his providence, as he hath done.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed…
Deu 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Ver. 7. For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee,] viz., With money, to fetch thee in other commodities. It is the blessing of God, when all is done, that maketh rich; without this men do but labour in the fire, labour all night and take nothing, trouble themselves to no purpose; all their endeavours are but Arena sine calce, sand without lime, they will not hold together, but, like untempered mortar, fall asunder; there being a curse upon unlawful practices, though men be never so industrious: as you may see in Jehoiachim. {Jer 22:18-19}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain By God’s blessing thou art able to buy thy…
By God’s blessing thou art able to buy thy conveniences, and therefore thy theft and rapine will be inexcusable, because without any pretence of necessity.
He knoweth, Heb. he hath known, i.e. observed, or regarded with care and kindness, which that word oft notes, as Psa 1:6; 31:7; which experience of God’s singular goodness to thee, should make thee trust him still, and not use any indirect and unjust practices to procure. what thou wantest or desirest.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in…
For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine hands,.... Had increased their cattle and substance, even though in a wilderness:
he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness; every step they took, and he owned them and prospered them in all things in which they were concerned:
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these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee: not only to protect and defend them, but to provide all things necessary for them. This number of years was not fully completed, but the round number is given instead of the broken one:
thou hast lacked nothing: and since they had wherewith to pay for their food and drink, they are directed to do it, and not take anything from the Edomites in an unjust way; nor make themselves look poor when they were rich, as Jarchi says.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Lord hath blessed thee - By God's blessing…
The Lord hath blessed thee - By God's blessing thou art able to buy thy conveniences, and therefore thy theft and rapine will be inexcusable, because without any pretense of necessity. He knoweth - Hebrew. He hath known, that is, observed, or regarded with care and kindness, which that word often notes. Which experience of God's singular goodness to thee, should make thee rely on him still, and not use any unjust practice to procure what thou wantest or desirest.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. The Lord - hath blessed thee, c.]…
Verse 7. The Lord - hath blessed thee, c.] God had given them much property, and therefore they had no need of plunder they had gold and silver to buy the provender they needed, and therefore God would not permit them to take any thing by violence.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 2:7. The Lord hath blessed thee — By…
Deu 2:7. The Lord hath blessed thee — By God’s blessing thou art able to buy thy conveniences, and therefore thy theft and rapine will be inexcusable, because without any pretence of necessity. He knoweth — Hebrew, He hath known; that is, observed, or regarded with care and kindness, which that word often denotes. Which experience of God’s singular goodness to thee should make thee rely on him still, and not use any unjust practice to procure what thou wantest or desirest.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Knoweth, or approveth, directing by his loving providence, Psalm…
Knoweth, or approveth, directing by his loving providence, Psalm i. 6., and xxxvi. 18.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee]…
7. For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee] Another formula recurrent in D.
in all the work of thy hand] Some Heb. MSS, LXX, Sam., hands: another recurrent phrase.
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he hath known thy walking] Rather hath cared for. The Heb. verb to know means frequently, especially in a religious connection, to put the mind to, attend to, regard; cp. Gen_39:6 : Potiphar had no thought or care, about anything in Joseph’s charge, 1Sa_2:12; Pro_9:13; Pro_27:23; Job_35:15. See Book of the Twelve Pr., i. 321 f. But LXX read the verb here as imperative, consider thy walking.
these forty years] So exactly Deu_8:2; Deu_8:4, also in the Sg. address. The tradition that the time of the wandering was 40 years, stated by Amo_2:10; Amo_5:25, is common to D and P (Deu_1:3; Num_14:33; Num_32:13; cp. Num_33:38), also in editorial passages in JE, Jos_5:6; Jos_16:10. The Semites frequently reckoned by multiples of 4 and 40: the latter express many round numbers in O.T. chronology. Forty years seems to have been equivalent to a generation. That Israel was 40 years in the wilderness agrees with the tradition that a generation died out there. For the same equation in Babylonian chronology see Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the O.T., 90 f., n. 1.
This verse is the third in the Sg. address. Note that in harmony with other Sg. passages it affirms the well-being of Israel during the 40 years, while the Pl. passages emphasise their dangers and losses. It is not necessary to the context, and therefore regarded as a later insertion. Yet it would not be unnatural for the same writer to change from Pl. to Sg. when taking a conjunct view of Israel’s experience.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) The Lord thy God hath blessed thee.—There is…
(7) The Lord thy God hath blessed thee.—There is nothing unreasonable in the view suggested by these words, that the Israelites acquired wealth by trade or by ordinary occupations during their wilderness journey. They had skilled workmen among them.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They were enabled to buy what they requiredFor the…
They were enabled to buy what they requiredFor the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand; their flocks and herds had increased during their wanderings; (Num_32:1) and they may have gained wealth by cultivating the soil at places where they had made a lengthened sojourn, or by traffic with the tribes of the desert with whom they came in contact. Jehovah their God had known had noted, observed, had regard to, had cared for. (Gen_39:6; Pro_27:23) their walking their peregrinationsthrough this great wilderness; he had been their Leader, had chosen for them places to rest in, had provided food for them, and had been their Protector and Guardian all through the forty years of their pilgrimage, so that they had wanted for nothing (Deu_1:33 Deu_8:2, Deu_8:3, Deu_8:15, Deu_8:16; Psa_23:1-6) "He sufficiently supplied what was needful for thee when thou walkedst through this great wilderness; for these forty years the Word of Jah thy God hath sustained thee; nor hath anything been wanting to thee" (Chaldee Paraphrase). Forty years. (Num_14:33) "From the fifteenth day of the first month in which their fathers came out of Egypt, (Num_33:3) to the tenth day of the same month in which they went over Jordan into Canaan, (Jos_4:19) there were but five days wanting of complete forty years" (Patrick).
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