Deuteronomy 8:2

Israel must remember the forty-year wilderness journey by which God humbled and tested them to reveal their hearts. Trials expose what is truly within us.

Cross-references · 36

• Jas 1:3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
• Deut 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
• 1 Pet 1:7that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Exod 16:4Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
• Deut 2:7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
• 1 Pet 5:5–6Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Exod 15:25Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
• Mal 3:2–3“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• 2 Chr 32:31However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
• John 2:25and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
• Deut 29:5I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
• Jas 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
• Eph 2:11–12Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);
• 2 Pet 3:1–2This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
• Prov 17:3The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Ps 81:7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.
• Deut 7:18you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
• 2 Chr 32:25–26But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
• Deut 1:33who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
• Ps 106:7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
• 2 Chr 33:12When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• Deut 13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Jer 17:9–10The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
• Deut 1:3In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them;
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
• Job 33:17That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
• Ps 77:11I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.
• Job 42:5–6I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.
• 2 Pet 1:12–13Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.
• Amos 2:10Also 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.
• Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Gen 22:1After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
• Ps 136:16To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
• Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

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