...by the King's son : that it was a country exceedingly glorious, and beautiful beyond description — a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths...hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and Jig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil-olive, and honey; a land where the inhabitants eat bread...

...passage of Scripture which serves to explain the meaning of our text. " The LORD thy GOD," says Moses, " bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of...and depths, that spring out of valleys and hills." Then it is added, " a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land...

...clearness, the force and justice of the promise made by Moses to his nation, a little before he died : " The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land ;...hills ; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of oil olive and honey.8 If to the natural fertility of this highly...

...Israel, when they entered upon the possession of it, found that it was as Moses described it: "For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a...hills : a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees, and pomegranates ? a land of oil, olive, and honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread...

...describing to the Israelites the Land of Canaan before they entered it — The Lord thy God bringetft thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water,...fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills : (Deut. viii. 7.) Similar,' and equally exact in description, is the language of the civ"1 Psalm :...

...fidelity with which Moses describes it to his people, as " a land flowing with milk and honey" — "a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains...vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive ; a land wherein they should eat bread without scarceness," and where they should " not lack...

...Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a...fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land * of oil olive,...

...vain, then, had they seen, that it was " a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that sprang out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley,...vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive and honey, a land whereon they should eat bread without scarceness, nor lack any thing in...

...divine favour ; to build them cities and plant vineyards. The land of promise was emphatically called " a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains...pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." And yet between this country,...

...valley (Cant. ii. 1, 16; iv. 5; v. 13), impart beauty and fragrance to this highly favoured land : — " a good land — a land of brooks of water, of fountains...that spring out of valleys and hills ;" — " a land flowing with milk and honey;" — " a land of wheat and barley, and • See Michaelis' Note* to Lowth,...