Deuteronomy 8:7

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into the good land; a land streaming with brooks of water, with fountain springs, and depths (of water) gushing from valleys and hills;

Targum Onkelos

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

6Keep then the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in the ways which are right before Him, to fear Him.

8A land of wheat and barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olives yielding oil, and which produceth honey;

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8And I have appeared to deliver them from the hand of the Mizraee, and to bring them up from that land, unto a land good and large, a land producing milk and honey, unto the place of the Kenaanaee, an the Hittaee, and the Amoraee, and the Perizaee, and the Hivaee, and the Yevusaee.

Deuteronomy 11:9And may prolong your days upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give them and their children, a land producing milk and honey;

Deuteronomy 11:11But the land to which thou goest over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, drinking water of the rains of heaven;

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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