IDuteronomi 8:15

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

15 owakuhambisayo entlango enkulu eyoyikekayo, eneenyoka ezinobuhlungu, noonomadudwane, nebalelelwe lilanga, engenamanzi; owakuvelisela amanzi eweni leqhwitha;

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led thee: Deuteronomy 1:19, Psalms 136:16, Isaiah 63:12-14, Jeremiah 2:6

fiery serpents: Numbers 21:6, Hosea 13:5

who brought: Exodus 17:5, Numbers 20:11, Psalms 78:15, Psalms 78:16, Psalms 105:41, Psalms 114:8, Isaiah 35:7, 1 Corinthians 10:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 17:6 - and thou Numbers 20:5 - this evil Deuteronomy 32:10 - found Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater Nehemiah 9:15 - broughtest Job 36:31 - by Psalms 107:4 - wandered Isaiah 30:6 - into the land Isaiah 43:19 - rivers Jeremiah 2:2 - when Revelation 9:3 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness,.... The wilderness of Paran, which was great and large, reaching from Sinai to Kadesh, eleven days' journey, and terrible to the sight, nothing being to be seen but dry rocks and barren mountains; see Deuteronomy 1:19, and especially for what follows: wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions; fiery serpents, such as bit the Israelites, of which see Numbers 21:6 and scorpions, a kind of serpents, venomous and mischievous, which have stings in their tails they are continually thrusting out and striking with, as Pliny says u; and have their name from their great sting; for Aristotle w says, this alone of insects has a large sting:

and drought where there was no water; a dry and barren place where no water was to be had; see Psalms 63:1 or it may be rather another kind of serpents may be meant, which is called "dipsas"; and so the Vulgate Latin, Septuagint, and Samaritan versions render it; the biting of which produces such a thirst as proves mortal, and which must be intolerable in a wilderness where no water is; and from whence it has its name, which signifies thirsty, as does the Hebrew word here used:

who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; which was done both at Horeb and Kadesh, Exodus 17:6 and was very extraordinary; by striking flint, fire is ordinarily produced, and not water. Dr. Shaw observes x, that it may be more properly named, with other sorts of graphite marble here to be met with, "the rock of amethyst", from their reddish or purple colour and complexion.

u Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 25. w Hist. Animal. l. 4. c. 7. x Travels, p. 317, 442.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render: “Who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, the fiery serpent and the scorpion, and the dry land where are no waters.” On the fiery serpents see Numbers 21:6 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 8:15. Who led thee through that - terrible wilderness — See the account of their journeying in the notes, Exodus 16:1, c. Numbers 21:10-35, &c.

Fiery serpents — Serpents whose bite occasioned a most violent inflammation, accompanied with an unquenchable thirst, and which terminated in death. Numbers 21:6.