Deuteronomy 8:7-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:1-9

The charge here given them is the same as before, to keep and do all God's commandments. Their obedience must be, 1. Careful: Observe to do. 2. Universal: To do all the commandments, Deut. 8:1. And, 3. From a good principle, with a regard to God as the Lord, and their God, and particularly with a holy fear of him (Deut. 8:6), from a reverence of his majesty, a submission to his authority, and a dread of his wrath. To engage them to this obedience, besides the great advantages of it, which he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land ,.... The land of Canaan, abounding with good things after enumerated, a land flowing with milk and honey, having in it plenty of everything both for convenience and delight; which is another reason why they were under obligations to serve the Lord, to walk in his ways and keep his commandments: a land of brooks of water ; rivers and torrents, such as Jordan, Jabbok, Kishon, Kidron, Cherith, and others: of fountains ; as Siloam,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:8

A land of wheat and barley ,.... There were two harvests in it, one a barley harvest, which began at the passover, and the other a wheat harvest, which began at Pentecost: instances of the great plenty of these might be observed in the vast quantities consumed in the times of Solomon, in his household, and in the yearly distribution he made to Hiram, 1 Kings 4:22 , yea, there was such plenty of wheat in this land, that it not only supplied the inhabitants of it, but even furnished other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:9

A land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness ,.... That is, should have plenty of all sorts of provisions, which bread is often put for: thou shall not lack anything in it ; for necessity and convenience, and for delight and pleasure: a land whose stones are iron ; in which were iron mines: and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass ; both which are taken out of the earth and the stones of it, Job 28:2 and were to be found in the land of Canaan, and particularly in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 8:8

A land of wheat, etc. - On the subject of this verse I shall introduce the following remarks, which I find in Mr. Harmer's Observations on the Fertility of the Land of Judea, vol. iii., p. 243. "Hasselquist tells us that he ate olives at Joppa (upon his first arrival in the Holy Land) which were said to grow on the Mount of Olives, near Jerusalem; and that, independently of their oiliness, they were of the best kind he had tasted in the Levant. As olives are frequently eaten in their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 8:9

A land whose stones are iron - Not only meaning that there were iron mines throughout the land, but that the loose stones were strongly impregnated with iron, ores of this metal (the most useful of all the products of the mineral kingdom) being every where in great plenty. Out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass - As there is no such thing in nature as a brass mine, the word נחשת nechosheth should be translated copper; of which, by the addition of the lapis calaminaris , brass is... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 8:7

Verse 7 7.For the Lord thy God. We may shortly sum up the words and the matter. He almost sets before their eyes a habitation full of wealth and various advantages, in order that they there may worship God more cheerfully, and study to repay by their gratitude so signal a benefit. In chapter 8 he commends the goodness of the land, because it is watered by the streams which flow through its valleys and mountains, and because it produces all kinds of fruits to supply them with nourishment; and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-8

Brooks of water , running streams, mountain torrents, and watercourses in the narrow valleys or wadys; fountains, perennial springs; depths , "the fathomless pools from which such streams as the Abana (now Barada), near Damascus, spring up full-grown rivers, almost as broad at their sources as at their mouths", or this may include also the inland seas or lakes, such as the sea of Galileo and Lake Haleh. Palestine is in the present day, on the whole, well supplied with water, though the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-10

The duty of thankfulness for the bounty of God in nature. The people of Israel were being led by the Lord their God to a land beautiful, luxuriant, fruitful. (For an account of the productions of Palestine, of the fertility of its soil, and of the treasures hidden in its hills, see works by Kitto, Stanley, Wilson, Thomson, and others; as well as Bible dictionaries and Cyclopedias, under the several headings.) Evidently, at the time Moses uttered the words before us, the people had not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 8:7-10

The good land. I. A LAND OF GREAT NATURAL ADVANTAGES —a wealthy possession . Wood, water, metals, a fertile soil, good pasturage, honey in the clefts of the rocks, etc. ( Deuteronomy 11:11 , Deuteronomy 11:12 ; Deuteronomy 33:13-16 , Deuteronomy 33:19 , Deuteronomy 33:25 ). Dr. Dykes remarks on it as uniting, as no other does, the two indispensable conditions of central position and yet of isolation, and points out that few regions offer so few temptations to... read more

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