Difficult Deuteronomy 8 Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer 1: B: Scorpions and drought complete the list beside the fiery serpents. Deuteronomy 8:15 names all three as what the wilderness held. Flint is also named in that verse without belonging to the list, and hunger belongs to verse 3 rather than to what filled the wilderness.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:15 (KJV): “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;”

Answer 2: D: The oil olive and the honey close the list. Deuteronomy 8:8 runs through wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates first, then names a land of oil olive and honey. Milk and honey is the familiar description of the land elsewhere in Deuteronomy, but milk is absent from this verse and honey is paired here with the olive.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:8 (KJV): “A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;”

Answer 3: A: The words Moses puts in the heart are power and the might of the hand. Deuteronomy 8:17 quotes the boast directly, and the next verse answers it by naming God as the one who gives power to get wealth. The work of the hands sounds like the same thought, but the text credits might rather than labour, and it is the strength itself that the heart claims.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:17 (KJV): “And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.”

Answer 4: C: The third purpose of the forty years was to know what was in their heart, whether they would keep his commandments or no. Deuteronomy 8:2 places it after humbling and proving. Chastening is language this chapter does use, but verse 5 brings it in as a comparison rather than as one of the reasons verse 2 gives for the forty years.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:2 (KJV): “And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”

Answer 5: B: Blessing the LORD for the good land is what fullness is meant to produce. Deuteronomy 8:10 ties the blessing to the land he had given them. Remembering the way he led is commanded in this chapter as well, but verse 2 sets that command against the forty years in the wilderness, not against the moment of being full.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:10 (KJV): “When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.”

Answer 6: E: The raiment did not wax old and the foot did not swell. Deuteronomy 8:4 names both and attaches them to the same forty years. Shoes are the natural pairing to expect, and Moses does say later in Deuteronomy that their shoes did not wax old, but this verse puts the raiment with the foot itself.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:4 (KJV): “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.”

Answer 7: D: The land is described by its brooks of water, its fountains, and the depths that spring out of valleys and hills. Deuteronomy 8:7 opens the description of the good land with all three. Rain from heaven is how Moses describes the same land two chapters later, but here the water rises out of the ground rather than falling on it.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:7 (KJV): “For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;”

Answer 8: B: The stones are iron and the brass is dug out of the hills. Deuteronomy 8:9 gives each metal its own source in that order. Putting the brass in the stones and the iron in the hills reverses the verse, though both metals do belong to the same land.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:9 (KJV): “A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.”

Answer 9: A: The comparison is a man chastening his son. Deuteronomy 8:5 asks Israel to read the whole wilderness that way, as a father correcting his own son. A father pitying his children is a true picture of God in Scripture, but pity is not what this verse asks Israel to consider, and the point here is correction rather than compassion.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:5 (KJV): “Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.”

Answer 10: C: The third purpose was to do them good at their latter end. Deuteronomy 8:16 places it after humbling and proving, so the hard years are aimed at a good outcome further on. Knowing what was in their heart is the third purpose in verse 2, where it belongs to the forty years of leading rather than to the manna.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:16 (KJV): “Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;”

Answer 11: E: Living, multiplying, and possessing the land are the three outcomes. Deuteronomy 8:1 attaches them to observing and doing all the commandments, and ties the land to the oath sworn unto the fathers. Rest is promised to Israel elsewhere in Deuteronomy, but verse 1 opens with living and never mentions it.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:1 (KJV): “All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.”

Answer 12: B: The herds, the flocks, the silver and the gold are what multiply. Deuteronomy 8:13 lists them and then adds that all they had was multiplied. Corn, wine, and oil is the standard list of increase elsewhere in Deuteronomy, but this verse counts livestock and precious metal instead.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:13 (KJV): “And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;”

Answer 13: D: The humbling comes first, the hunger second, and the manna after both. Deuteronomy 8:3 puts them in that order and credits every step to God, including the hunger itself. A reader who remembers the manna as relief sent to a starving people will reverse the first two, but the verse presents the hunger as something God brought on them on purpose.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:3 (KJV): “And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”

Answer 14: A: The stated cause is refusing to be obedient unto the voice of the LORD their God. Deuteronomy 8:20 gives that reason after the comparison with the nations he was destroying. Walking after other gods appears in the previous verse as part of the same warning, but verse 20 traces the perishing back to disobedience to his voice.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:20 (KJV): “As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.”

Answer 15: E: Forgetting is defined here as not keeping his commandments, his judgments, and his statutes. Deuteronomy 8:11 puts the definition inside the warning itself, so forgetting is measured by obedience rather than by feeling. Turning aside to other gods arrives later, in verse 19, as what the forgetting leads to, while verse 11 says what the forgetting actually is.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:11 (KJV): “Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:”

Answer 16: C: The water came out of the rock of flint. Deuteronomy 8:15 names the material in the same breath as the drought and the lack of water. Horeb is where the rock was struck in Exodus, but Moses does not name the place here, and this verse describes the rock by what it was made of.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:15 (KJV): “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;”

Answer 17: D: The wealth serves the covenant God swore unto their fathers. Deuteronomy 8:18 gives that as the reason he grants the power to get it, so prosperity is tied to a promise older than the prosperity itself. Blessing him for his goodness is commanded in verse 10, but that is Israel’s response to the land rather than God’s reason for the power.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:18 (KJV): “But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.”

Answer 18: B: The heart is lifted up and forgets the LORD who brought them out of Egypt. Deuteronomy 8:14 places this immediately after the list of everything that multiplies. Turning aside after other gods does follow in verse 19, but it comes after the forgetting rather than being what happens to the heart first.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 8:14 (KJV): “Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;”