Deuteronomy 26:15

Look thou down out of thy holy habitation out of the heavens and bless thy people Israel, and the soil which thou hast given unto us,—as thou didst swear unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 in my sorrow therefrom neither have I removed therefrom when unclean, neither have I given thereof unto the dead,—I have hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh my God, I have done according to all which thou hast commanded me.

16This day, is Yahweh thy God commanding thee to do these statutes and the regulations,—thou shalt therefore observe and do them, with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 6:3Therefore shalt thou hear, O Israel, and shalt observe to do, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may multiply greatly, as Yahweh the God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Kings 8:27But, in very deed, will God dwell, upon the earth? Lo! the heaven, yea the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

Psalms 28:9Oh save thy people, and bless thine inheritance, Tend them also, and carry them, Unto times age-abiding.

Psalms 80:15Yea the stock which thy right hand planted, Even upon the son thou didst secure for thyself.

Psalms 102:19That he looked down, out of his holy height, Yahweh, from the heavens unto the earth, directed his gaze;—

Psalms 115:12Yahweh, hath remembered us, he will bless—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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