Deuteronomy 8:9
Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
8A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
Cross References
Joshua 22:8And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.
1 Chronicles 22:3And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;
Job 28:2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 8:2-10
A Charge to Israel; Israel's Retrospect. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 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. 2 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. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and… Read the whole commentary →