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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 8:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| De 8:7 |
Strong Concordance |
For the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] bringeth [0935] thee into a good [02896] land [0776], a land [0776] of brooks [05158] of water [04325], of fountains [05869] and depths [08415] that spring out [03318] of valleys [01237] and hills [02022]; |
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King James |
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; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land--All accounts, ancient and modern, concur in bearing testimony to the natural beauty and fertility of Palestine, and its great capabilities if properly cultivated.
a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills--These characteristic features are mentioned first, as they would be most striking; and all travellers describe how delightful and cheerful it is, after passing through the barren and thirsty desert, to be among running brooks and swelling hills and verdant valleys. It is observable that water is mentioned as the chief source of its ancient fertility. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
See Exo 3:8 note, and the contrast expressed in Deu 11:10-11, between Palestine and Egypt.
The physical characteristics and advantages of a country like Palestine must have been quite strange to Israel at the time Moses was speaking: compare Deu 3:25 note. To have praised the fertility and excellence of the promised land at an earlier period would have increased the murmurings and impatience of the people at being detained in the wilderness: whereas now it encouraged them to encounter with more cheerfulness the opposition that they would meet from the inhabitants of Canaan.
Deu 8:8
Vines - The abundance of wine in Syria and Palestine is dwelt upon in the Egyptian records of the campaigns of Thotmosis III. Only a little wine is produced in Egypt itself. The production of wine has in later times gradually ceased in Palestine (circa 1880's).
Deu 8:9
For brass read copper (Gen 4:22 note); and compare the description of mining operations in Job 28:1-11. Mining does not seem to have been extensively carried on by the Jews, though it certainly was by the Canaanite peoples displaced by them. Traces of iron and copper works have been discovered by modern travelers in Lebanon and many parts of the country; e. g., the district of Argob (see Deu 3:4 notes) contains iron-stone in abundance. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The Israelites were to continue mindful of this paternal discipline on the part of their God, when the Lord should bring them into the good land of Canaan. This land Moses describes in Deu 8:8, Deu 8:9, in contrast with the dry unfruitful desert, as a well-watered and very fruitful land, which yielded abundance of support to its inhabitants; a land of water-brooks, fountains, and floods (תּהומות, see Gen 1:2), which had their source (took their rise) in valleys and on mountains; a land of wheat and barley, of the vine, fig, and pomegranate, and full of oil and honey (see at Exo 3:8); lastly, a land "in which thou shalt not eat (support thyself) in scarcity, and shalt not be in want of anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou hewest brass." The stones are iron, i.e., ferruginous. This statement is confirmed by modern travellers, although the Israelites did not carry on mining, and do not appear to have obtained either iron or brass from their own land. The iron and brass of which David collected such quantities for the building of the temple (Ch1 22:3, Ch1 22:14), he procured from Betach and Berotai (Sa2 8:8), or Tibchat and Kun (Ch1 18:8), towns of Hadadezer, that is to say, from Syria. According to Eze 27:19, however, the Danites brought iron-work to the market of Tyre. Not only do the springs near Tiberias contain iron (v. Schubert, R. iii. p. 239), whilst the soil at Hasbeya and the springs in the neighbourhood are also strongly impregnated with iron (Burckhardt, Syrien, p. 83), but in the southern mountains as well there are probably strata of iron between Jerusalem and Jericho (Russegger, R. iii. p. 250). But Lebanon especially abounds in iron-stone; iron mines and smelting furnaces being found there in many places (Volney, Travels; Burckhardt, p. 73; Seetzen, i. pp. 145, 187ff., 237ff.). The basalt also, which occurs in great masses in northern Canaan by the side of the limestone, from the plain of Jezreel onwards (Robinson, iii. p. 313), and is very predominant in Bashan, is a ferruginous stone. Traces of extinct copper-works are also found upon Lebanon (Volney, Travels; Ritter's Erdkunde, xvii. p. 1063). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Depths - Deep wells or springs, or lakes, which were numerous and large. |
4 And we took [03920] all his cities [05892] at that time [06256], there was not a city [07151] which we took [03947] not from them, threescore [08346] cities [05892], all the region [02256] of Argob [0709], the kingdom [04467] of Og [05747] in Bashan [01316].
1 Surely [03426] there is a vein [04161] for the silver [03701], and a place [04725] for gold [02091] where they fine [02212] it.
2 Iron [01270] is taken [03947] out of the earth [06083], and brass [05154] is molten [06694] out of the stone [068].
3 He setteth [07760] an end [07093] to darkness [02822], and searcheth out [02713] all perfection [08503]: the stones [068] of darkness [0652], and the shadow of death [06757].
4 The flood [05158] breaketh out [06555] from the inhabitant [01481]; even the waters forgotten [07911] of the foot [07272]: they are dried up [01809], they are gone away [05128] from men [0582].
5 As for the earth [0776], out of it cometh [03318] bread [03899]: and under it is turned up [02015] as it were fire [0784].
6 The stones [068] of it are the place [04725] of sapphires [05601]: and it hath dust [06083] of gold [02091].
7 There is a path [05410] which no fowl [05861] knoweth [03045], and which the vulture's [0344] eye [05869] hath not seen [07805]:
8 The lion's [07830] whelps [01121] have not trodden [01869] it, nor the fierce lion [07826] passed [05710] by it.
9 He putteth forth [07971] his hand [03027] upon the rock [02496]; he overturneth [02015] the mountains [02022] by the roots [08328].
10 He cutteth out [01234] rivers [02975] among the rocks [06697]; and his eye [05869] seeth [07200] every precious thing [03366].
11 He bindeth [02280] the floods [05104] from overflowing [01065]; and the thing that is hid [08587] bringeth he forth [03318] to light [0216].
22 And Zillah [06741], she also bare [03205] Tubalcain [08423], an instructer [03913] of every artificer [02794] in brass [05178] and iron [01270]: and the sister [0269] of Tubalcain [08423] was Naamah [05279].
9 A land [0776] wherein [0834] thou shalt eat [0398] bread [03899] without [03808] scarceness [04544], thou shalt not lack [02637] any thing in it; a land [0776] whose stones [068] are iron [01270], and out of whose hills [02042] thou mayest dig [02672] brass [05178].
8 A land [0776] of wheat [02406], and barley [08184], and vines [01612], and fig trees [08384], and pomegranates [07416]; a land [0776] of oil [08081] olive [02132], and honey [01706];
25 I pray thee, let me go over [05674], and see [07200] the good [02896] land [0776] that is beyond [05676] Jordan [03383], that goodly [02896] mountain [02022], and Lebanon [03844].
10 For the land [0776], whither thou goest in [0935] to possess [03423] it, is not as the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], from whence ye came out [03318], where thou sowedst [02232] thy seed [02233], and wateredst [08248] it with thy foot [07272], as a garden [01588] of herbs [03419]:
11 But the land [0776], whither ye go [05674] to possess [03423] it, is a land [0776] of hills [02022] and valleys [01237], and drinketh [08354] water [04325] of the rain [04306] of heaven [08064]:
8 And I am come down [03381] to deliver [05337] them out of the hand [03027] of the Egyptians [04714], and to bring [05927] them up out of that land [0776] unto a good [02896] land [0776] and a large [07342], unto a land [0776] flowing [02100] with milk [02461] and honey [01706]; unto the place [04725] of the Canaanites [03669], and the Hittites [02850], and the Amorites [0567], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Hivites [02340], and the Jebusites [02983].