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Deuteronomy 8 Bible study: Not by bread only
The manna came after hunger: the LORD "humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna" (8:3), to teach that man lives by every word from his mouth, the verse Jesus answered with when he was hungry (Matthew 4:4). And the same two verbs, eat and be full, lead either to blessing the LORD (8:10) or to forgetting him (8:12-14).
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“He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the LORD’s mouth.”
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“In Deuteronomy 8, Moses says the LORD allowed Israel to be hungry before he fed them with manna.”
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What's really going on
Hungry first, then fed
Moses tells Israel to look back on the whole road: "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not" (8:2). Then he names three things the LORD did, in order: "He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna" (8:3). The hunger is on the list, not only the bread. In Exodus the people had said, "you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger" (Exodus 16:3), and the LORD answered, "I will rain bread from the sky for you… that I may test them" (Exodus 16:4). Near the end of the chapter Moses gives the reasons for the manna again and adds one: "that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end" (8:16).
Where it leads to Jesus
Not by bread alone
Deuteronomy 8:3leads toMatthew 4:4
Moses says the LORD "humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna… that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the LORD’s mouth" (8:3). "Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil" (Matthew 4:1). "When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward" (Matthew 4:2). The tempter said, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread" (Matthew 4:3). Jesus answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth'" (Matthew 4:4). The WEB words the two differently: Deuteronomy has "bread only" and "the LORD’s mouth", Matthew "bread alone" and "God’s mouth".
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- Bread they didn't know
- Full, then blessing; full, then forgetting
- "My power", or "he who gives you power"
- Carried as a son, disciplined as a son
- The warning, remembered later
- Snakes, scorpions and the rock of flint
- 12 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
זָכַרzakharsay za-KHAR
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "remember". It comes twice in this chapter. "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness" (8:2), and "But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth" (8:18). Around them come the warnings against its opposite, forgetting (8:11, 8:14, 8:19). The next chapter puts both into one command: "Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness" (9:7).
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Deuteronomy 8 Bible study questions
- 1Moses told Israel to remember the whole road, the hunger included (8:2-3). What part of your own road would you rather forget, and what might it have taught you?
- 2"You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God" (8:10). What would it look like for you to thank God this week when things are good, not only when you need him?
- 3"My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth" (8:17). Where are you most tempted to say that in your heart?
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