I took care of you in the wilderness, in that dry and thirsty land.
Parallel translations
- WEB I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
- KJV I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
- BSB I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
- NKJV I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.
- NASB I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.
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Quick answer
God personally knew and cared for Israel in the harsh wilderness. It recalls his faithful, intimate provision in their time of need.
Overview
To "know" here means to acknowledge, care for, and enter into covenant relationship. God sustained Israel in a land of drought where they could not survive on their own. This reminder of grace heightens the guilt of a people who would forget the God who kept them alive.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 32:10He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Deut 8:15who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
- 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.
- Gal 4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
- Ps 142:3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
- Ps 63:1A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
- Nah 1:7Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
- Exod 2:25God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
- Jer 2:6They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
- Jer 2:2“Go, and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Ps 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
- 1 Cor 8:3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
- Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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