Quotes about Sustenance
And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 18:31
Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
- Numbers 20:5
Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- Deuteronomy 2:7
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 8:3
Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 8:4
And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 11:15
Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
- Deuteronomy 28:5
For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
- Deuteronomy 29:5
And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
- Joshua 5:12
encamping against them as far as Gaza and destroying the produce of the land. They left Israel with no sustenance, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.
- Judges 6:4
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
- 1 Samuel 2:36
Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”
- 1 Samuel 28:22