Deuteronomy 8:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Cross References

Genesis 22:1

After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

2 Chronicles 32:31

So also in the matter of the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

2 Chronicles 33:12

While he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer, and how God received his entreaty, all his sin and his faithlessness, the sites on which he built high places and set up the sacred poles and the images, before he humbled himself, these are written in the records of the seers.

Nehemiah 9:19

you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.

Job 33:17

that he may turn them aside from their deeds and keep them from pride,

Psalm 103:2

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits—

Psalm 106:7

Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.

Psalm 136:16

who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever; who made water flow from the rock, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 77:11

I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord; I will remember your wonders of old.

Psalm 81:7

In distress you called, and I rescued you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Exodus 15:25

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he put them to the test.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a habitable land; they ate manna, until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Exodus 16:4

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day. In that way I will test them, whether they will follow my instruction or not.

Exodus 20:20

Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin.”

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Isaiah 2:17

The haughtiness of people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, “Where is the Lord, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that no one passes through, where no one lives?”

Ezekiel 20:19

I the Lord am your God; follow my statutes, be careful to observe my ordinances,

Amos 2:10

Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

Numbers 14:33

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”

John 2:25

and needed no one to testify about anyone, for he himself knew what was in everyone.

Deuteronomy 1:3

In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the Israelites just as the Lord had commanded him to speak to them.

Deuteronomy 1:33

who goes before you on the way to seek out a place for you to camp, in fire by night, and in the cloud by day, to show you the route you should take.’

Deuteronomy 13:3

you must not heed the words of those prophets or those who divine by dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you indeed love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

Deuteronomy 2:7

Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

Deuteronomy 29:5

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out;

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Deuteronomy 7:18

do not be afraid of them. Just remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.

James 1:3

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

James 4:6

But God gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Revelation 2:23

and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.

Judges 2:22

In order to test Israel, whether or not they would take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their ancestors did,

Judges 3:4

They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord that he commanded their ancestors by Moses.