Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. (Deuteronomy 9:6) Once again we have a verse to remind us that, in spite of our continued stubbornness and...

Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven.... Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming...

And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. (Deuteronomy 8:18) I believe it is safe to say that all the difficulties Israel was...

Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them ... and all that you have is...

When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. (Deuteronomy 8:10) In Judaism, the dinner table is considered to be an altar of sorts and the time spent at the table a semi-sacred gathering. Therefore...

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you...

You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. (Deuteronomy 8:5) The hunger suffered in the wilderness, followed by the manna, was in some ways a form of correction, or as Moses puts it, chastening. But if chastening,...

So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy...

So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy...

So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy...

And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. (Deuteronomy 8:2) The Bible clearly states that God will...

Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. (Deuteronomy 8:1) There is concept taught in Judaism that says, "Liberty without law is...