Deuteronomy 8:7

For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

Updated King James Version

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

6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

8A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

Read all of Deuteronomy 8

Cross References

Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 11:9And that all of you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 11:11But the land, where all of you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of heaven:

2 Kings 18:32Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that all of you may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

Psalms 65:9You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.

Isaiah 5:1Now will I sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Deuteronomy 8:7