You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
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Verse 2. Prove, which is done frequently by posterity also, verse 3. 12. 14. After trying the fidelity of his people by various means, to make them sensible of their own weakness and inability to do good, God takes pity on them, verse 16. Calmet.—Known. Hebrew “to know (by experience) what was in thy heart, whether,” and so forth The original term signifies also to make known to others. Genesis 22:12. Bible.