Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
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Gill's Exposition
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna,.... Even all the forty years they were in it, Exo 16:35 which thy fathers knew not; when they first saw it, Exo 16:15.
that he might humble thee, and that…
Barnes' Notes
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 Num 21:6 note.
Moses, having mentioned the great plenty they would find in the land of Canaan, finds it necessary to caution them against the abuse of that plenty, which was a sin they would be the more prone to new…
Cambridge Bible
great and terrible wilderness Deu 1:19: cp. Deu 7:21.
fiery serpents and scorpions The former, in the collective singular naḥash sarapḥ, are described in the plural in Num 21:6 E: cp. Isa 30:6: the…
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