Deuteronomy 8:9

It's a land where you won't run out of food, where you will have everything you need; a land whose rocks contain iron ore and whose hills can be mined for copper.

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In The King James Version

A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

In Context

8It's a land that produces wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey.

10When you eat and are full, make sure you thank the Lord your God for the good land that he's given you.

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Cross References

Joshua 22:8He told them, “Take all the wealth you have gained back home: the great herds of livestock, the things made of gold, silver, copper, and iron, the huge quantity of clothes. Share all this plunder with your brothers.”

1 Chronicles 22:3David provided plenty of iron to make the nails for the entrance doors and for the supports, as well as more bronze than could be weighed.

Job 28:2Iron is extracted from the earth and copper is smelted from its ore.

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 →

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