Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 8:7
For 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;
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses Israel on the plains of Moab, declaring that Yahweh is actively leading them into the promised territory after the wilderness period.
The words — The Hebrew מְבִיאֲךָ (mevi'akha) conveys the continuous action of bringing or leading, directly modifying אֶרֶץ טוֹבָה (eretz tovah), which literally means "good land."
The thread — This portrayal of a water-rich, fertile region reappears in Exodus 3:8 and Ezekiel 20:6, where God's sworn promise to deliver Israel to a flowing land is consistently recalled.
Why it lands — The text states that the land's natural abundance is a direct result of God's movement, requiring the reader to acknowledge divine provision as the foundation for obedience.
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The Hebrew words
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;
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 11:9 and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, 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 honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Ezekiel 20:6 On 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 all lands.
- Deuteronomy 6:10 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
- Psalms 65:9 You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Nehemiah 9:24 So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.