...condition of this country. "It is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven ; a good land ; a land of brooks of water, of fountains,...vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a lan'd of oil-olive and honey ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.'1*...

...fecundity over its valleys and plains. Still it was not without reason that Moses described it as " a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains,...vines, and figtrees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive and honey ; a land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness, thou shall not lack any...

...of this sinful world. You know how beautiful and how wonderfully fertile the land of Judea was — 'a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains,...vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive and honey.'* This, and many other passages, show us the richness of the country in what are...

...fertility of the Land of Promise. It was denominated by Him who made it, the " glory of all lands;"* a good land; a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills — aland — which drinketh water of the rain of heaven." f " If (says he) my prejudices are not uncommonly...

...Kirjath Sepher and Edom, on the rock, the valley, the upper springs and the nether springs ; of the " land of brooks, of water, of fountains, and DEPTHS* ! that spring out of valleys and hills." (Deut. viii. 7•) ; of the figure, " The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me as the...

...Lord thy God bringeth the< into a irood land ; a land of broukx, of water, 01 fountains, and cL.pms that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-treet. and pome, granules ; a land of oil, olive, ami honey ; a land whercin thou shall eat bread...

...Kirjath Sepher and Eclom, on the rock, the valley, the upper springs and the nether springs ; of the " land of brooks, of water, of fountains, and DEPTHS * ! that spring out of valleys and hills." (Deut. viii. 7.) ; of the figure, " The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me as the BREACH...

...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 3of oil olive,...

...to illustrate the expressions, describing to the Israelites the land of Canaan before they entered it — "The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good...water, of fountains and depths that spring out of vallies and hills." (Deut. viii. 7.) Similar, and equally exact in description, is the language of...