You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
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You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
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Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
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And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 8:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
- Job 5:17-18 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
- Proverbs 3:12 for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
- Hebrews 12:5-11 You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children. Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
- Psalms 94:12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
- Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
- Psalms 89:32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Deuteronomy 4:9 Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
- Deuteronomy 4:23 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Ezekiel 12:3 “Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
- Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain So that his afflictions are signs of his fatherly…
So that his afflictions are signs of his fatherly love toward us.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart,…
Deu 8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Ver. 5. That as a man chasteneth his son.] This is reckoned here as a high favour. So Job accounts it, {Job 7:17-18} and Paul describes it, {Heb 12:7-8} and Jeremiah prays for it. {Jer 10:24}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Unwillingly, being constrained by thy necessity; moderately, in…
i.e. Unwillingly, being constrained by thy necessity; moderately, in judgment remembering mercy; and for thy reformation, not for thy destruction. Compare Pro 3:11,12; Heb 12:5, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord…
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God,.... Not only because they are the commands of God, and of a covenant God and Father, which are reasons sufficient for the observance of them; but because the Lord had dealt so bountifully with them, in providing food and raiment for them in the wilderness, which always continued with them; and because, when he afflicted them, it was a fatherly chastisement, with great tenderness and compassion, and for their good; all which laid them under obligations to keep the commands of God, whatsoever he had enjoined them, whether of the moral, ceremonial, or judicial kind:
to walk in his ways, and to fear him; to walk in the ways he directed, to be under an awe of his majesty, a fear of offending him, and a reverential affection for him, such as children have to a father.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain As a man chastiseth his son - That is,…
As a man chastiseth his son - That is, unwillingly, being constrained by necessity; moderately, in judgment remembering mercy; and for thy reformation not thy destruction.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 8:5. As a man chasteneth his son —…
Deu 8:5. As a man chasteneth his son — That is, unwillingly, being constrained by necessity; moderately, in judgment remembering mercy; and for his reformation, not his destruction.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Up, by mildness and correction alternately. Hebrew, "chastiseth thee,"…
Up, by mildness and correction alternately. Hebrew, "chastiseth thee," Proverbs iii. 12.
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).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. As a man chasteneth his son — The…
5. As a man chasteneth his son — The word which in our version is rendered chasteneth is also used in the sense of instruct, educate. In Deu_4:36, it is translated instruct. This discipline of the wilderness was designed to educate the people. It was to teach them obedience and trust in Him who was guiding them and providing for them. It was training them to become a holy and peculiar people whose God is Jehovah.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. And thou shalt consider in thine heart] Lit.…
5. And thou shalt consider in thine heart] Lit. know with thy heart; cp. ‘conscire sibi,’ and see above on Deu_7:9.
as a man chasteneth his son] disciplineth, cp. Deu_4:36, Deu_11:2 q.v.; Hos_11:1-4, also Deu_2:14 on the wilderness as a school of discipline. In Deut. which so frequently emphasises physical suffering and adversity as God’s punishment for sin this explanation of them as signs not of His hostility, but of His fatherly providence, is remarkable. It anticipates the more developed doctrine of later O.T. writings and of the N.T.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) As a man chasteneth his son.—This is the…
(5) As a man chasteneth his son.—This is the foundation of many similar sayings in Holy Scripture: Pro_13:24, “He seeketh chastening for him,” i.e., seeks it early. All our ideas of training necessarily imply time; it cannot be done in a moment. But the main point of the illustration is to prove God’s love. “Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth;” else, why should He be at the pains to chasten at all?
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thus God educated, disciplined, and trained his people as…
Thus God educated, disciplined, and trained his people as a father does his child. Chasteneth. The idea is not so much that of punishment or chastisement, properly so called, as that of severe discipline and training. God made them feel his hand upon them, but ever for their good; the end of the discipline to which they were subjected was that they might keep his commandments and walk in his ways, so as to enjoy his favor. (cf. Heb_12:5, etc.)
God the Chastener.
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I CHASTISEMENT IS A NECESSITY OF OUR MORAL NATURE. He is no wise parent who spares the rod when the good of the child requires that chastisement be administered. Gentler methods failing, the undutiful son ought to be chastised, he deserves it. He needs the discipline. It acts wholesomely upon him, awakening conscience, begetting respect for paternal authority, deterring from evil, leading probably to penitence and submission.
II CHASTISEMENT IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF GOD"S TREATMENT OF HIS CHILDREN. His chastisements proceed from love. (Heb_12:6) They are wisely meted out, and are always for our profit. (Heb_12:10) God can bear to punish. He will not allow our faults to slip. He will make us feel when we do wrong, hedging up our way, and laying stripes upon us. God"s children have the comfort of knowing that they are thus in a Father"s hand, and that in all they suffer they are being chastened by unerring love and wisdom.
III CHASTISEMENT IS A PART OF GOD"S DISCIPLINE OF US FOR WHICH WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL. Not murmuring, but submitting to it. Without this chastisement:
1. How forgetful of God would we soon become!
2. How haughty and self-willed!
3. How dilatory in duty! J.O.
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