Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down from the habitation of thy holiness, from the heavens, and bless thy people Israel, and the soil which thou hast given unto us, as thou hast sworn unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

In Context

14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I removed away aught thereof in an unclean state, nor have I given aught thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, I have done all, just as thou hast commanded me.

16This day the Lord thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; and thou shalt keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 6:3Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee, [in] the land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Kings 8:27For in truth will God then dwell on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!

Psalms 28:9Help thy people, and bless thy heritage: and feed them, and exalt them unto all eternity.

Psalms 80:15(80:16) And of the sprout which thy right hand hath planted, and of the branch that thou hast made strong for thyself.

Psalms 102:19(102:20) For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord hath cast from heaven his view to the earth:

Psalms 115:12The Lord hath even been mindful of us, he will bless [us]; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 26:13-16

Appropriation of Tithes. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all… Read the whole commentary →

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