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Deuteronomy 29:6

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

That ye might know that I am the Lord your God. In taking a retrospect of all the way by which they had been led "these forty years" (Deuteronomy 8:2), the design of Moses was to exhort the people to obedience, by working upon their sense of gratitude, and tell them that all those wonders which were done in Egypt before their eyes, and afterward in the wilderness for their support, were in order that they might be educated to the practical knowledge of Yahweh as their God.

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See also Deuteronomy 29:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 29:6. _YE HAVE NOT EATEN BREAD, C._] That is, ye have not been supported in an ordinary providential way I have been continually working _miracles_ for you, _that ye might know that...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    25. THE REPETITION OF THE COVENANT AND THE REPETITION OF THE CURSE CHAPTER 29 _ 1. The repetition of the covenant (Deuteronomy 29:1)_ 2. The repetition of the curse (Deuteronomy 29:16) The words of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 29:1 belongs, as in the Heb. Bible, to the preceding chapter. It is the formal ending of the great discourse (Deuteronomy 4:44, Deuteronomy 12-26, Deuteronomy 28). Deuteronomy 29 (except D...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ See App-27. STRONG DRINK. Hebrew. _shekar._ See App-27....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _v_. is parallel to Deuteronomy 8:3. The last clause is not found in D, but occurs (_minus_the deut. addition _your God_) in J, Exodus 7:17; Exodus 8:22;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 6. _YE HAVE NOT EATEN BREAD, NEITHER HAVE YE DRUNK WINE_— The meaning is, that they were not nourished by the ordinary method of sustenance, but were constantly supported by a miraculous supply...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD (Deuteronomy 29:2-9) And Moses called unto all Isreal, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all h...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EXHORTATIONS AND WARNINGS In this chapter the covenant is renewed and enforced with a reminder of God's goodness and the consequences of disobedience....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NOT EATEN BREAD] but manna. They have been entirely dependent on God, and His care in providing for them should teach them humility and obedience. The goodness of God should lead to repentance....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 29 V1 These are the words of the *covenant. The *LORD ordered Moses to make it with the *Israel...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE HAVE NOT EATEN BREAD — but manna (Deuteronomy 8:3). NEITHER HAVE YE DRUNK WINE OR STRONG DRINK. — A fact stated here only, and evidently coming from the lips of one who “knew their walking through...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Deuteronomy 29:5]_ לֶ֚חֶם לֹ֣א אֲכַלְתֶּ֔ם וְ יַ֥יִן...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE COVENANT THAT BRINGS PROSPERITY Deuteronomy 29:1 In one great final convocation Moses rehearsed the Covenant, and endeavored to bind the people to its provisions. It becomes us all from time to t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The fourth discourse of Moses urged the people to be true to the Covenant, the terms of which had been given and are recorded in the previous chapter. It is to be carefully remembered that the first v...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Ye have not eaten (e) bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God. (e) Made by man's art, but manna, which is called the bread of angels....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Bread, &c., as your ordinary food, (Menochius) though they might have both bread and wine on some occasions; as when they adored the calf, &c. (St. Augustine, q. 51.) See chap. viii. 4. (Calmet) ---...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What less than a standing miracle was this, that Israel was fed, clothed, and strengthened, through forty years, when their garments waxed not old, and the very sandals, with which they came out of Eg...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 28 AND 29. In CHAPTER 28 we have the principles of God's government in the midst of that people, and the immediate consequences of obedience or disobedience-c...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YE HAVE NOT EATEN BREAD,.... Bread made of corn, common bread, of their own preparing, made by the labour of their own hands; but manna, the food of angelS, the bread of heaven: NEITHER HAVE YOU DRAN...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 6. _Ye have not eaten bread,_] viz., Ordinary, _see _ Deu 2:6 but manna; _e...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Your clothes waxed not old_ See on Deuteronomy 8:4. _ Ye have not eaten bread_ Common bread purchased by your own money, procured by your own labour, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angel...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses exhorteth them to obedience, by the memorie of the workes they haue seene. 10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his Couenant. 18 The great wrath on him that flattereth himselfe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ye have not eaten bread, since the Lord nourished them with manna during the wilderness journey, NEITHER HAVE YE DRUNK WINE OR STRONG DRINK, like men devoted to the Lord, THAT YE MIGHT KNOW THAT I AM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Of the Deliverance from Egypt...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONDITIONAL COVENANT RENEWED (vs.1-29) Verse I speaks of a covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with Israel in the land of Moab, "Beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb." This...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Both former mercies, and fresh mercies, should be thought on by us as motives to obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding heart, are the gift of God. All that have them,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    NOT EATEN BREAD, i.e. common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread, DEUTERONOMY 8:3 PSALMS 78:24,25. You have subsisted without bread, the staf...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This chapter closes the second grand division of our book. In it we have a most solemn appeal to the conscience of the congregation. It is what we may term the summing up and practical application of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 29:6 eaten H398 (H8804) bread H3899 drunk H8354 (H8804) wine H3196 drink H7941 know H3045 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A QUICK RESUME OF THEIR HISTORY (DEUTERONOMY 29:2). In the light of the covenant which he had given (Deuteronomy 29:1), he began by a quick reminder of their reasons for confidence in Yahweh, and of w...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Introductory words to the Palestinian covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: We are bound in gratitude as well as duty and faithfulness to keep the words of the solemn covenant of G...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 29:1. _The words of the covenant;_ from _co, con,_ or _com;_ a social prefix; and _venio,_ to come; the coming of two parties into one compact. The vendor gets the best terms he can, and t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 29:1 Moses’ Third Speech: Final Exhortation. These chapters represent the climax of Moses’ preaching. He pleads with Israel to accept the covenant....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 29:5 CLOTHES... FEET. See Deuteronomy 8:4. THAT YOU MAY KNOW. See...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—The discourse is continued—the subject of that is the covenant of Israel with God—its privileges conferred and obligations imposed. _Besides_ (Deuteronomy 29:1), not a new covenant, bu...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB. (Deuteronomy 29-30.) The first verse of this chapter is placed in the Hebrew text at the end of Deuteronomy 28:1; but in the LXX. and Vulgate...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter twenty-nine, God continues with this covenant. These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel. And Moses called all Israel, and said un...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Corinthians 9:25; Deuteronomy 8:3; Ephesians 5:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye have not eaten bread — Common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread. Neither drank wine — But only water out of the rock. The Lord — Omnipot...

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