Deuteronomy 8:7
in Deuteronomy 8For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
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ASV
For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
KJV
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;
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This verse in Deuteronomy 8
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
This site's exposition
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments
on Deuteronomy 8:6-7
Verse 6 turns the forty years into a reason for obedience and verse 7 gives the second reason, the land itself. It is described first by its water, brooks, fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills. Deuteronomy 11:10-11 sets that against Egypt, where a man watered his field with his foot from the river, and says this land drinketh water of the rain of heaven. A harvest fed by rain depends on the sky every year, and that dependence is the ground the blessings and curses of chapter 28 stand on.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,....
(3.) To show what a figure it was of good things to come. Whatever others saw, it is probable that Moses in it saw a type of the better country: The gospel church is the New-Testament Canaan, watered with the Spirit in his gifts and graces, planted with the trees of righteousness, bearing the fruits of righteousness.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| מְבִֽיאֲךָ֖ | meviakha | [will] bring you | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | into | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אֶ֣רֶץ | ʾeretz | a land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| טוֹבָ֑ה | tovah | good | H2896 → | 538 times |
| אֶ֚רֶץ | ʾeretz | a land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| נַ֣חֲלֵי | nachalei | torrents of | H5158 → | 141 times |
| מָ֔יִם | mayim | water | H4325 → | 581 times |
| עֲיָנֹת֙ | ʾayanot | springs | H5869 → | 887 times |
| וּתְהֹמֹ֔ת | utehomot | and deeps | H8415 → | |
| יֹצְאִ֥ים | yotzeim | [which] go forth | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| בַּבִּקְעָ֖ה | babikah | in the valley | H1237 → | 20 times |
| וּבָהָֽר׃ | uvahar | and on the mountain | H2022 → | 546 times |
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
יְהוָ֣הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָGod your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
מְבִֽיאֲךָ֖[will] bring you
meviakhaH935 →2568 times
אֶל־into
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
אֶ֣רֶץa land
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
טוֹבָ֑הgood
tovahH2896 →538 times
אֶ֚רֶץa land of
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
נַ֣חֲלֵיtorrents of
nachaleiH5158 →141 times
מָ֔יִםwater
mayimH4325 →581 times
עֲיָנֹת֙springs
ʾayanotH5869 →887 times
וּתְהֹמֹ֔תand deeps
utehomotH8415 →
יֹצְאִ֥ים[which] go forth
yotzeimH3318 →1067 times
בַּבִּקְעָ֖הin the valley
babikahH1237 →20 times
וּבָהָֽר׃and on the mountain
uvaharH2022 →546 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
it leads to
- Genesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…
- Exodus 3:17
And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Genesis 15:18–21
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Deuteronomy 1:25
They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
- Exodus 13:5
And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
- Genesis 50:24
Through
Ezekiel 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory…
- Jeremiah 32:22
You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
- Ezekiel 20:15
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.