Deuteronomy 8:14

_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 mentioning those instances of the divine goodness, Moses founded on them an argument for their future obedience. Verse 15. LED THEE THROUGH THAT ... WILDERNESS, WHEREIN WERE FIERY SERPENTS, AND SCORPIONS. The part of the desert referred to was after the departure from Horeb (see the notes at Numbers 21:4; Deuteronomy 1:19; also Jeremiah 2:6), by way of the mountain of the Amorites, as they came to Kadesh-barnea. Now, as the whole journey from Horeb to Kadesh occupied eleven days, that portion of the

10-20 Moses directs to the duty of a prosperous condition. Let them always remember their Benefactor. In everything we must give thanks. Moses arms them against the temptations of a prosperous condition. When men possess large estates, or are engaged in profitable business, they find the temptation to pride, forgetfulness of God, and carnal-mindedness, very strong; and they are anxious and troubled about many things. In this the believing poor have the advantage; they more easily perceive their supplies coming from the Lord in answer to the prayer of faith; and, strange as it may seem, they find less difficulty in simply trusting him for daily bread. They taste a sweetness therein, which is generally unknown to the rich, while they are also freed from many of their temptations. Forget not God's former dealings with thee. Here is the great secret of Divine Providence. Infinite wisdom and...

EXPOSITION FURTHER EXHORTATION TO OBEDIENCE, ENFORCED BY A REVIEW OF GOD'S DEALINGS WITH ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS. DEUTERONOMY 8:1 That they might be induced the more faithfully to observe all the commandments which had been enjoined upon them so as to go on and prosper, they are called to remember the experiences of the forty years in the wilderness, when God guided them and disciplined them for their good. He humbled them that he might test the state of their heart and affections towards him, using the distress and privations to which they were subjected as means of bringing out what was in

THEN THINE HEART BE LIFTED UP,.... As the heart is apt to be when riches increase; hence the advice in 1 Timothy 6:17 AND THOU FORGET THE LORD THY GOD; from whom all good things come, and who can take them away when he pleases, and therefore should be ever kept in mind, for ever looked to and trusted in for the continuance of them; yet such is the evil heart of man, and such the stupefying nature of riches, that they bring on forgetfulness of the author of them, lead off from dependence on him and obedience to him; in order to prevent which, an enumeration is given of wonderful instances of divine goodness to Israel, as follows: WHICH BROUGHT THEE FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, FROM THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE; into a land abounding with all the above good things, and therefore it must be the highest ingratitude to forget such a God, and disobey his comma

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 against forgetting Jehovah (Deuteronomy 8:11) Admonition to obedience begins this chapter. Disobedience and what will result from it closes it. Between the first and last verses we find extremely precious words. They are called upon to remember the experiences of the wilderness. It was Jehovah, who led them and watched over them. The wilderness experience was made a blessing to them. It taught them the blessed lessons of humility and brought out all that was in their hearts. And

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 as the Canaanites did (Deuteronomy 8:18). Deuteronomy 8:2. prove: Deuteronomy 6:16 * (tempt, same Heb. verb). Deuteronomy 8:3. manna: Exodus 16:14;...

BONDAGE. bondmen, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6....

_thine heart be lifted up_ Deuteronomy 17:20; Hosea 13:6. _house of bondage_ Deuteronomy 6:12....

_VER._ 14. _THEN THINE HEART BE LIFTED UP_— An usual effect of prosperity and great riches, as Euripides observes: υβριν δε τικτει πλουτος; _wealth breeds pride and contempt of others;_ for when men are elated by their distinguished circumstances, they easily fancy themselves to be very important persons, and possessed of extraordinary merit; and, in proportion to their vanity, and the high thoughts they entertain of themselves, they are apt to have an unbecoming and insolent contempt of others, as if they were of a different nature from their fellow-creatures, and originally formed in a higher order of being. Nor is this the worst: another fatal effect of affluent prosperity, is, that it _makes men forget the Lord their God;_ for when every thing about us is gay, and has a smiling aspect, we are too apt to be careless and inconsiderate, and to be diverted by pleasure from greater and mo...

LESSON EIGHT DEUTERONOMY 8:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 11:32 7. THE THREAT FROM WITHIN (Deuteronomy 8:1 to Deuteronomy 11:21) a. THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY (Deuteronomy 8:1-20) All the commandment 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 Jehovah sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what