IDuteronomi 8:3

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

3 Wakuthoba, wakulambisa, wakudlisa imana, into obungayazi, ababengayazi nooyihlo; ukuze akwazise ukuba akaphili ngasonka sodwa umntu; umntu lo yena uphila ngento yonke ephuma emlonyeni kaYehova.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fed thee: Exodus 16:2, Exodus 16:3, Exodus 16:12-35, Psalms 78:23-25, Psalms 105:40, 1 Corinthians 10:3

doth: Psalms 37:3, Psalms 104:27-29, Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4, Luke 12:29, Luke 12:30, Hebrews 13:5, Hebrews 13:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:14 - the dew Exodus 16:15 - It is manna Exodus 16:22 - General Exodus 16:35 - forty years Deuteronomy 6:24 - he might Deuteronomy 8:16 - fed thee Deuteronomy 29:6 - eaten bread Deuteronomy 33:8 - prove at Nehemiah 9:15 - gavest Psalms 78:24 - had rained Psalms 104:15 - bread Psalms 143:5 - remember Psalms 144:13 - our sheep Proverbs 29:23 - honour Ecclesiastes 7:14 - but Isaiah 38:16 - General Jeremiah 31:2 - found Daniel 1:12 - pulse to eat Daniel 11:35 - to try Mark 6:42 - General Luke 22:35 - lacked John 6:31 - fathers Romans 8:28 - we know Philippians 4:19 - supply 1 Timothy 6:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he humbled thee,.... Or afflicted thee with want of bread:

and suffered thee to hunger; that there might be an opportunity of showing his mercy, and exerting his power:

and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; a sort of food they had never seen before, and when they saw it, knew not what it was, but asked, what is it? Exodus 16:15. Thus the Lord humbles his people by his Spirit and grace, and brings them to see themselves to be in want, and creates in them desires after spiritual food, and feeds them with Christ the hidden manna, whose person, office, and grace, they were before ignorant of:

that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only; which is the stay and staff of life, and which strengthens man's heart, and is the main support of it, being the ordinary and usual food man lives upon, and is put for all the rest:

but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live: not so much by the food he eats as by the blessing of God upon it, and who can make one sort of food as effectual for such a purpose as another; for every creature of God is good being received with thankfulness, and sanctified by the word and prayer; and particularly he could and did make such light food as manna was to answer all the purposes of solid bread for the space of forty years in the wilderness; the Targum of Jonathan is,

"but by all which is created by the Word of the Lord is the life of man;''

which seems to agree with 1Ti 4:3,4 for the meaning is not that the Israelites in the wilderness, and when come into the land of Canaan, should not live by corporeal food only, but by obedience to the commands of God, by means of which they should continue under his protection, which was indeed their case; nor that man does not live in his body only by bread, but in his soul also by the word of God, and the doctrines of it, which is certainly true; spiritual men live a spiritual life on Christ, the Word of God, and bread of life, and on the Gospel and the truths of it, the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus, and are nourished up with the words of faith and sound doctrine, by means of which their spiritual life is supported and maintained; but this is not what is here intended.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord - literally, “every outgoing of the mouth of the Lord.” Compare Deuteronomy 29:5-6. The term “word” is inserted by the King James Version after the Septuagint, which is followed by Matthew and Luke (see the marginal references). On the means of subsistence available to the people during the wandering, see Numbers 20:1 note. The lesson was taught, that it is not nature which nourishes man, but God the Creator by and through nature: and generally that God is not tied to the particular channels (“bread only,” i. e. the ordinary means of earthly sustenance) through which He is usually pleased to work.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 8:3. He - suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee — God never permits any tribulation to befall his followers, which he does not design to turn to their advantage. When he permits us to hunger, it is that his mercy may be the more observable in providing us with the necessaries of life. Privations, in the way of providence, are the forerunners of mercy and goodness abundant.