Deuteronomy 8:16

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fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

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  • Exod 16:15 : 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,“What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,“It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.
  • Jer 24:5-6 : 5 “I, the LORD, the God of Israel, say:‘The exiles of Judah whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon are like those good figs. I consider them to be good. 6 I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.
  • Deut 8:3 : 3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.
  • Lam 3:26-33 : 26 It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the LORD. 27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. 28 י(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the LORD is disciplining him. 29 Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope. 30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults. 31 כ(Kaf) For the Lord will not reject us forever. 32 Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness. 33 For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
  • Heb 12:10-11 : 10 For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness. 11 Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.
  • Jas 1:12 : 12 Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

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  • Deut 8:2-5
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    2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

    3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.

    4Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

    5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you.

  • Deut 8:14-15
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    14be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,

    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

  • Deut 1:31
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    31and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”

  • Neh 9:15
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    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Deut 2:7
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    7All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wilderness. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

  • Deut 8:17-18
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    17Be careful not to say,“My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth.”

    18You must remember the LORD your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day.

  • Heb 3:9
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    9“There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

  • Neh 9:20-21
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    20You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

    21For forty years you sustained them. Even in the wilderness they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

  • Exod 16:32
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    32Moses said,“This is what the LORD has commanded:‘Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”

  • John 6:31
    74%

    31Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written,‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

  • Deut 1:33
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    33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.

  • Exod 16:3-4
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    3The Israelites said to them,“If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger!”

    4Then the LORD said to Moses,“I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?

  • Hos 13:5
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    5I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

  • Deut 11:5
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    5They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,

  • Deut 8:9-10
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    9a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

    10You will eat your fill and then praise the LORD your God because of the good land he has given you.

  • Ps 95:9
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    9where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

  • Exod 16:15
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    15When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,“What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,“It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.

  • Deut 29:5-6
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    5I have led you through the wilderness for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

    6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!

  • Deut 4:34
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    34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

  • Jer 2:6
    73%

    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

  • Num 32:8
    73%

    8Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

  • Acts 13:18
    72%

    18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  • John 6:49
    72%

    49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

  • Exod 16:12
    72%

    12“I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them,‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’”

  • Deut 4:36
    72%

    36From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

  • Exod 16:35
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    35Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

  • Deut 6:11
    71%

    11houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,

  • Deut 32:13
    71%

    13He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

  • Judg 3:4
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    4They were left to test Israel, so the LORD would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.

  • Ps 78:24
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    24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.

  • Deut 9:7
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    7The History of Israel’s Stubbornness Remember– don’t ever forget– how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.

  • Deut 6:16
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    16Exhortation to Obey the Lord Exclusively You must not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

  • Exod 16:8
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    8Moses said,“You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”

  • Deut 29:16
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    16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

  • Deut 11:9
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    9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 11:2
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    2Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the LORD your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power.

  • Deut 7:19
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    19the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out– thus the LORD your God will do to all the people you fear.

  • Deut 4:20
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    20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

  • Deut 4:38
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    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Deut 32:6
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    6Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.

  • Jer 2:17
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    17You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the LORD your God when he was leading you along the right path.