deuteronomy-8:6-14,-proverbs-14:34

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:1-6

The lessons of the wilderness. Moses here recalls the leadings of God in the wilderness, for the warning and instruction of the Israelites. And we are taught, surely, such lessons as these— I. THE WAY OF SALVATION IS ONE ALSO OF HUMILIATION '. This is, indeed, God's plan, "to hide pride from us." The way of salvation through Christ is humiliating . We are proved by it and made to see what is in our heart. II. AT THE SAME TIME , IT IS A WAY OF ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:2-6

The uses of adversity. It is a great matter when in any experience of life we can read the Divine purpose in bringing us through it. The speaker in these verses unfolds the design and lessons of the wilderness discipline. Our Lord, in the temptation, found an application to himself ( Matthew 4:4 ). Every believer will find the same in seasons of adversity. I. ADVERSITY A DIVINE ORDINANCE . ( Deuteronomy 8:2 .) 1. Divinely sent . "The Lord thy God led thee" (cf. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-8

Brooks of water , running streams, mountain torrents, and watercourses in the narrow valleys or wadys; fountains, perennial springs; depths , "the fathomless pools from which such streams as the Abana (now Barada), near Damascus, spring up full-grown rivers, almost as broad at their sources as at their mouths", or this may include also the inland seas or lakes, such as the sea of Galileo and Lake Haleh. Palestine is in the present day, on the whole, well supplied with water, though the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-10

The duty of thankfulness for the bounty of God in nature. The people of Israel were being led by the Lord their God to a land beautiful, luxuriant, fruitful. (For an account of the productions of Palestine, of the fertility of its soil, and of the treasures hidden in its hills, see works by Kitto, Stanley, Wilson, Thomson, and others; as well as Bible dictionaries and Cyclopedias, under the several headings.) Evidently, at the time Moses uttered the words before us, the people had not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-10

The good land. I. A LAND OF GREAT NATURAL ADVANTAGES —a wealthy possession . Wood, water, metals, a fertile soil, good pasturage, honey in the clefts of the rocks, etc. ( Deuteronomy 11:11 , Deuteronomy 11:12 ; Deuteronomy 33:13-16 , Deuteronomy 33:19 , Deuteronomy 33:25 ). Dr. Dykes remarks on it as uniting, as no other does, the two indispensable conditions of central position and yet of isolation, and points out that few regions offer so few temptations to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-20

The land on which they were about to enter is described as a good laud, fertile and well watered, and yielding abundant produce to its cultivators; and they are cautioned against forgetting, in their enjoyment of the gift, the bounty of the Giver, or congratulating themselves on having achieved the conquest of such a land, instead of gratefully acknowledging the grace which had sustained them during their protracted wandering in the wilderness, and by which alone they had been enabled to take... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-20

Wealth perilous to piety. God's policy in the government of men is to win by prodigal kindness. A churlish parsimony has never been found with him; the very opposite. An open eye discovers widespread munificence—a royal banquet. The present is only a sample of the future. The full inheritance is always the object of hope. The children of a king have large expectations. This passage contains— I. A NOTABLE INSTANCE OF DIVINE MUNIFICENCE . 1. The heritage of Israel was a "... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-20

God forgotten amid second causes. The support of the wilderness was manifestly miraculous. They could not doubt their dependence there upon God. They might murmur even amid daily miracle, but they could not doubt it. It would be different in Canaan, and it is in view of this Moses warns them. There they would get sustenance in ordinary ways; and they might say that their own power, and not God's blessing, made them wealthy. I. THERE IS A VERY GREAT TENDENCY TO FORGET GOD... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:8

"Palestine has been celebrated in all ages for three products: corn, wine, and oil, which still continue to be its most valuable crops". The principal corn crops were wheat and barley. The vine was largely and carefully cultivated; the olive required little cultivation, being almost a spontaneous growth, and forming one of the most valuable productions of the country; the fig was also indigenous in Palestine, and still grows there, both wild and cultivated, in abundance; that the pomegranate (... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:9

A land whose stones are iron. Minerals do not abound in Palestine; the hills are for the most part calcareous; but by the side of the limestone in the north of Canaan ferruginous basalt appears in largo masses, and on Lebanon ironstone abounds. Near Tiberius are springs largely impregnated with iron, as are also those at Has-beija, on the Hermon range, as well as the soil around that place. Traces of extinct copper works are also to be found on Lebanon (cf. art. 'Metals,' in Kitto and Smith;... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:1-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:2-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:9

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