CHAPTER 8 THEY MUST REMEMBER THAT YAHWEH IS THEIR PROVIDER AND OBSERVE HIS INSTRUCTION AND NOT FORGET HIS COMMANDMENTS. In the previous Chapter s Moses has constantly reminded them of how Yahweh delivered them from Egypt and from bondage (see especially the details in Deuteronomy 7:19, compare Deute... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ Your clothes did not grow old on you, nor did your foot swell, these forty years.' They were to remember how, while they wandered in that wilderness, they were fully provided for. They did not live in poverty so that their clothes grew old and ragged. Rather they had had sufficient so that they c... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ And you shall consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.' Furthermore when they are tested, as they were then and will be, they must consider in their hearts that just as a man chastens his children for their good, so does Yahweh chasten them, His ch... [ Continue Reading ]
‘ And you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.' So with this in mind they must truly continue to keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, to walk constantly in His ways, and to fear Him. As a son listens to his father, so must they listen to Him.... [ Continue Reading ]
YAHWEH PURPOSES TO MAKE WONDERFUL PROVISION FOR THEM (DEUTERONOMY 8:7). In these verses we have a glowing picture of all the good things which Yahweh has ahead for His covenant people. Analysis in the words of Moses: a For Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of wadis of water... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WARNING LEST WHEN THEY ARE BLESSED THEY FORGET WHO HAS BLESSED THEM (DEUTERONOMY 8:11). Knowing the hearts of the people Moses now saw fit to gave them a severe warning. He recognised that there was a danger that when they became prosperous they would forget Who had given them all these blessin... [ Continue Reading ]