Deuteronomy 2:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 24:35

“The Lord has blessed my master so abundantly that he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 26:12

Isaac sowed a crop in that region and reaped a hundredfold the same year. Since the Lord blessed him,

Genesis 30:27

Laban answered him: “If you will please! I have learned through divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

Genesis 39:3

When his master saw that the Lord was with him and brought him success in whatever he did,

Genesis 39:5

From the moment that he put him in charge of his household and all his possessions, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the Lord’s blessing was on everything he owned, both inside the house and out.

Nehemiah 9:21

Forty years in the desert you sustained them: they did not want; Their garments did not become worn, and their feet did not swell.

Job 23:10

Yet he knows my way; if he tested me, I should come forth like gold.

Psalm 1:6

Because the Lord knows the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

Psalm 107:4

Some had lost their way in a barren desert; found no path toward a city to live in.

Psalm 31:7

You hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Psalm 90:17

May the favor of the Lord our God be ours. Prosper the work of our hands! Prosper the work of our hands!

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate the manna for forty years, until they came to settled land; they ate the manna until they came to the borders of Canaan.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the wilderness, in a land unsown.

Hosea 13:5

I fed you in the wilderness, in the parched land.

Amos 2:10

It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years, to occupy the land of the Amorites;

Numbers 1:1

In the second year after the Israelites’ departure from the land of Egypt, on the first day of the second month, the Lord said to Moses at the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai:

Numbers 14:33

while your children will wander for forty years, suffering for your infidelity, till the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:34

Corresponding to the number of days you spent reconnoitering the land—forty days—you shall bear your punishment one year for each day: forty years. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose me.

Numbers 22:12

But God said to Balaam: Do not go with them and do not curse this people, for they are blessed.

Numbers 32:13

So the anger of the Lord flared up against the Israelites and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord had disappeared.

Luke 22:35

He said to them, “When I sent you forth without a money bag or a sack or sandals, were you in need of anything?” “No, nothing,” they replied.

John 10:27

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

Deuteronomy 1:19

Then we set out from Horeb and journeyed through that whole vast and fearful wilderness that you have seen, in the direction of the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord, our God, had commanded; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Deuteronomy 1:46

That is why you had to stay as long as you did at Kadesh.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now thirty-eight years had elapsed between our departure from Kadesh-barnea and the crossing of the Wadi Zered; in the meantime the whole generation of soldiers had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn they should.

Deuteronomy 2:6

You shall purchase from them with money the food you eat; even the water you drink you shall buy from them with money.

Deuteronomy 29:4

I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;

Deuteronomy 29:5

it was not bread that you ate, nor wine or beer that you drank—so that you might know that I, the Lord, am your God.

Joshua 5:6

Now the Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness, until all the warriors among the people that came forth from Egypt died off because they had not listened to the voice of the Lord. For the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.