The Principles of the Covenant – Deuteronomy 8 Part 1
OUTLINE OF DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 8
- THE LORD AS A SOURCE OF BLESSING (BETTER: TO PRAISE THE LORD) (8:1-20)
- LIKE CHAPTER 7, CHAPTER 8 IS FORMED IN LOOSE CHIASTIC FASHION.
- A: THE LAND SWORN TO THE FOREFATHERS; COMMAND GIVEN TODAY (V. 1)
- B: WILDERNESS AS PLACE OF HUMBLING, TESTING, AND PROVISION ( VV. 2-6)
- C:THEGOOD LAND(VV.7-9]
- D: YOU WILL EAT AND BE SATISFIED, BLESS (PRAISE) THE LORD (V.10)
- E: DO NOT FORGET (V. 11)
- D’: YOU WILL EAT AND BE SATISFIED (V. 12a)
- D: YOU WILL EAT AND BE SATISFIED, BLESS (PRAISE) THE LORD (V.10)
- C’:THE GOOD LAND (V.12b-14)
- C:THEGOOD LAND(VV.7-9]
- B’: WILDERNESS AS PLACE OF HUMBLING, TESTING, AND PROVISION (VV. 15,16)
- B: WILDERNESS AS PLACE OF HUMBLING, TESTING, AND PROVISION ( VV. 2-6)
- A’: WEALTH, COVENANT WITH FOREFATHERS; AS AT THIS DAY (VV.17-18)