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5 aYou should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.  
6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, ato walk in His ways and to fear Him.  
7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, aa land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;  
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
10 aWhen you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.  
11 “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
12 alest—when you have eaten and are1 full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;  
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are1 multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;  
14 awhen your heart is lifted up, and you bforget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;  
15 who aled you through that great and terrible wilderness, bin which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; cwho brought water for you out of the flinty rock;  
16 who fed you in the wilderness with amanna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, bto do you good in the end—  
17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, afor it is He who gives you power to get wealth, bthat He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.  
19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, aI testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.  
20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, aso you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. 
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Deuteronomy 8:7-9

See Exodus 3:8 note, and the contrast expressed in Deuteronomy 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 Deuteronomy 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.

Deuteronomy 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).

Deuteronomy 8:9

For brass read copper (Genesis 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 Deuteronomy 3:4 notes) contains iron-stone in abundance.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Deuteronomy 8:7:

Job 28:14
Psalms 42:7
Psalms 66:12

 

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