Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the whole way by which he ¹  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Ge 22:1; Ex 15:25; Ex 16:4; De 1:3,33; De 2:7; De 7:18; De 8:16; De 13:3; De 29:5; 2Ch 32:25,26; 2Ch 32:31; 2Ch 33:12,19; Job 33:17; Job 42:5,6; Ps 77:11; Ps 81:7; Ps 106:7; Ps 136:16; Pr 17:3; Isa 2:17; Jer 17:9,10; Am 2:10; Mal 3:2,3; Lu 18:14; Joh 2:25; Eph 2:11,12; Jas 1:3; Jas 4:6,10; 1Pe 1:7; 1Pe 5:5,6; 2Pe 1:12,13; 2Pe 3:1,2; Re 2:23

¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.