Deuteronomy 8:7

For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains:

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

In Context

6And thou shalt keep the commands of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

8a land of wheat and barley, wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land, and to bring them into a good and wide land, into a land flowing with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Girgashites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 11:9that ye may live long upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 11:11but the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven.

2 Kings 18:32until I come and remove you to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil, and honey, and ye shall live and not die: and do not ye hearken to Hezekiah, for he deceives you, saying, The Lord shall deliver you.

Psalms 65:9Who quickens my soul in life, 1 And does not suffer my feet to be moved. 1

Isaiah 5:1Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.

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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