translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET study note

text: Jesus quoted this text to the devil in the midst of his forty-day fast to make the point that spiritual nourishment is incomparably more important than mere physical bread ( Matt 4:4 ; cf. Luke 4:4 ).


text: A land whose stones are iron . Since iron deposits are few and far between in Palestine, the reference here is probably to iron ore found in mines as opposed to the meteorite iron more commonly known in that area.