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Deuteronomy 8:15

great and terrible wilderness Deuteronomy 1:19: cp. Deuteronomy 7:21.

fiery serpents and scorpions The former, in the collective singular naḥash sarapḥ, are described in the plural in Numbers 21:6 E: cp. Isaiah 30:6: the flying saraph. If saraphreally means burning and is not a foreign word (for dragonor the like), it refers to the inflammation produced by the serpent's bite. Scorpionsis added characteristically by D.

out of the rock of flint Exodus 17:6 (E): Numbers 20:8; Numbers 20:11 (JE): in both cases only the rock. D's characteristic rhetoric adds of flint. The word does not occur before D, and elsewhere only in Deuteronomy 32:13; Psalms 114:8; Job 28:9; Isaiah 50:7.

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See also Deuteronomy 8:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 8:15. _WHO LED THEE THROUGH THAT - TERRIBLE WILDERNESS_] See the account of their journeying in the notes, Exodus 16:1, c. Numbers 21:10-4, c. _FIERY SERPENTS_] Serpents

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Render: “Who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, the fiery serpent and the scorpion, and the dry land where are no waters.” On the fiery serpents see Numbers 21:6 note....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THOU SHALT REMEMBER! PROVISION AND WARNING CHAPTER 8 _ 1. Remember the forty years and Jehovah's care (Deuteronomy 8:1)_ 2. The gracious provision in the land (Deuteronomy 8:7) 3. Warning again...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 8. Israel's duty to be faithful and obedient to Yahweh enforced by a recital of His loving treatment of them in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 8:1). Unless they are faithful they will perish...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WILDERNESS. desert, Compare Deuteronomy 1:19. SERPENTS. Hebrew. _nachash._ DROUGHT. Hebrew. _zimm'on._ Only here and Psalms 107:33, and Isaiah 35:7. Who brought. Compare...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 15. _SCORPIONS_— The _scorpion_ is a small insect, which has a bladder full of poison: the belly is divided into seven rings, from the last of which the tail proceeds, which tail is armed with...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LESSON EIGHT DEUTERONOMY 8:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 11:32 7. THE THREAT FROM WITHIN (Deuteronomy 8:1 to Deuteronomy 11:21)

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BEWARE THAT THOU FORGET NOT THE LORD THY GOD, IN NOT KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS, AND HIS JUDGMENTS, AND HIS STATUTES, WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY:_ Beware that thou forget not the Lord. After mentio...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) The people are reminded of God's goodness to them at the time of the exodus and during their sojourn in the wilderness. They are exhorted to humility and obedience,...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE ROCK OF FLINT. — The rock in Horeb is called _tsûr;_ the rock smitten in Kadesh, _selagh._ The first word conveys the idea of “hardness”; the other is rather a “cliff,” or “height,” and suggests t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ מֹּולִ֨יכֲךָ֜ בַּ † מִּדְבָּ֣ר ׀ הַ גָּדֹ֣ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE BREAD OF THE SOUL Deuteronomy 8:1 IN the Chapter s which follow, _ viz_. 8., 9., and Deuteronomy 10:1, we have an appeal to history as a motive for fulfilling the fundamental duty of loving God a...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Still continuing this discourse, Moses declared that the land when purified of the corrupt people was to be possessed by the people of God as His chosen nation. He showed that the first condition of p...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I bring the whole of these verses into one point of view for shortness sake, and, because the doctrine of the whole is one and the same; namely, that the LORD'S grace ought never to be made the occasi...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where [there was] no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;...

  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord aware unto your fathers. And thou shalt rememb...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 8:15 led H3212 (H8688) great H1419 terrible H3372 (H8737) wilderness H4057 fiery H8314 serpents H5175

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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