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LORD your God, the great and awesome God,
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is among you. And the LORD your God will
drive out those nations before you little by lit-
tle; you will be unable to destroy them at once, 8:11 do not forget the LORD your God.
lest the beasts of the field become too numer- Sufficient food would lead to the satisfaction
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ous for you. But the LORD your God will deliv- of Israel in the land (vv.10,12).This satisfaction
er them over to you, and will inflict defeat and security could lead to Israel forgetting
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upon them until they are destroyed. And He God. Forgetting God means no longer having
will deliver their kings into your hand, and you Him in the daily thoughts of one’s life.This for-
will destroy their name from under heaven; no getfulness would lead to a disobedience of
one shall be able to stand against you until you His commandments. Whereas, in the wilder-
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have destroyed them. You shall burn the ness, Israel had to depend on God for the
carved images of their gods with fire; you shall necessities of life, in the rich land there would
not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor be a tempting sense of self-sufficiency.
take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it;
for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
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house, lest you be doomed to destruction like and are full, and have built beautiful houses
it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor and dwell in them; and when your herds and
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it, for it is an accursed thing. your flocks multiply, and your silver and your
“Every commandment which I command gold are multiplied, and all that you have is
8 you today you must be careful to observe, multiplied; when your heart is lifted up, and
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that you may live and multiply, and go in and you forget the LORD your God who brought
possess the land of which the LORD swore to you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
your fathers. And you shall remember that bondage; who led you through that great and
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the LORD your God led you all the way these terrible wilderness, in which were fiery ser-
forty years in the wilderness, to humble you pents and scorpions and thirsty land where
and test you, to know what was in your heart, there was no water; who brought water for
whether you would keep His commandments you out of the flinty rock; who fed you in the
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or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to wilderness with manna, which your fathers
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hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know, that He might humble you and
did not know nor did your fathers know, that that He might test you, to do you good in the
He might make you know that man shall not end— then you say in your heart, ‘My power
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live by bread alone; but man lives by every and the might of my hand have gained me this
word that proceeds from the mouth of the wealth.’
LORD. Your garments did not wear out on you, 18 “And you shall remember the LORD your
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nor did your foot swell these forty years. You God, for it is He who gives you power to get
should know in your heart that as a man chas- wealth, that He may establish His covenant
tens his son, so the LORD your God chastens which He swore to your fathers, as it is this
you. day. Then it shall be, if you by any means for-
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6 “Therefore you shall keep the command- get the LORD your God, and follow other gods,
ments of the LORD your God, to walk in His and serve them and worship them, I testify
ways and to fear Him. For the LORD your God against you this day that you shall surely per-
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is bringing you into a good land, a land of ish. As the nations which the LORD destroys
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brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that before you, so you shall perish, because you
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flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD
and barley, of vines and fig trees and pome- your God.
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granates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land
in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in Psalm 37:5–11
which you will lack nothing; a land whose 5 Commit your way to the LORD,
stones are iron and out of whose hills you can Trust also in Him,
dig copper. When you have eaten and are And He shall bring it to pass.
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full, then you shall bless the LORD your God 6 He shall bring forth your
for the good land which He has given you. righteousness as the light,
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“Beware that you do not forget the LORD And your justice as the noonday.
your God by not keeping His commandments,
His judgments, and His statutes which I com- 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently
mand you today, lest—when you have eaten for Him;
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