Deuteronomy 2:7

Good News Translation

“Remember how the Lord your God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He has taken care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years, and you have had everything you needed.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 24:35

“The Lord has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys.

Genesis 26:12

Isaac sowed crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

Genesis 30:27

Laban said to him, “Let me say this: I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.

Genesis 39:3

who saw that the Lord was with Joseph and had made him successful in everything he did.

Genesis 39:5

From then on, because of Joseph the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian and everything that he had in his house and in his fields.

Nehemiah 9:21

Through forty years in the desert you provided all that they needed; their clothing never wore out, and their feet were not swollen with pain.

Job 23:10

Yet God knows every step I take; if he tests me, he will find me pure.

Psalm 1:6

The righteous are guided and protected by the Lord, but the evil are on the way to their doom.

Psalm 107:4

Some wandered in the trackless desert and could not find their way to a city to live in.

Psalm 31:7

I will be glad and rejoice because of your constant love. You see my suffering; you know my trouble.

Psalm 90:17

Lord our God, may your blessings be with us. Give us success in all we do!

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna for the next forty years, until they reached the land of Canaan, where they settled. (

Jeremiah 2:2

to proclaim this message to everyone in Jerusalem. “I remember how faithful you were when you were young, how you loved me when we were first married; you followed me through the desert, through a land that had not been planted.

Hosea 13:5

I took care of you in a dry, desert land.

Amos 2:10

I brought you out of Egypt, led you through the desert for forty years, and gave you the land of the Amorites to be your own.

Numbers 1:1

On the first day of the second month in the second year after the people of Israel left Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses there in the Tent of his presence in the Sinai Desert. He said,

Numbers 14:33

Your children will wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last one of you dies.

Numbers 14:34

You will suffer the consequences of your sin for forty years, one year for each of the forty days you spent exploring the land. You will know what it means to have me against you!

Numbers 22:12

God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them, and do not put a curse on the people of Israel, because they have my blessing.”

Numbers 32:13

The Lord became angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness forty years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead.

Luke 22:35

Then Jesus asked his disciples, “When I sent you out that time without purse, bag, or shoes, did you lack anything?” “Not a thing,” they answered.

John 10:27

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Deuteronomy 1:19

“We did what the Lord our God commanded us. We left Mount Sinai and went through that vast and fearful desert on the way to the hill country of the Amorites. When we reached Kadesh Barnea,

Deuteronomy 1:46

“So then, after we had stayed at Kadesh for a long time,

Deuteronomy 2:14

This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the Lord had said they would.

Deuteronomy 2:6

You may buy food and water from them.’

Deuteronomy 29:4

But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.

Deuteronomy 29:5

For forty years the Lord led you through the desert, and your clothes and sandals never wore out.