Deuteronomy 8 · Verse 7

Deuteronomy 8:7

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;
Deuteronomy 8:7, King James Version

Deuteronomy 8:7 in other translations

BSBFor 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;
WEBFor the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
ASVFor Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
YLT‘For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain:
DARBYFor Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills;
BBEFor the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
WebsterFor 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;

What does Deuteronomy 8:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land--All accounts, ancient and modern, concur in bearing testimony to the natural beauty and fertility of Palestine, and its great capabilities if properly cultivated. a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills--These characteristic features are mentioned first, as they would be most striking; and all travellers describe how delightful and cheerful it is, after passing through the barren and thirsty desert, to be among running brooks and swelling hills and verdant valleys. It is observable that water is mentioned as the chief source of its ancient fertility.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 8:1-9

Obedience must be, 1. Careful, observe to do; 2. Universal, to do all the commandments; and 3. From a good principle, with a regard to God as the Lord, and their God, and with a holy fear of him. To engage them to this obedience. Moses directs them to look back. It is good to remember all the ways, both of God's providence and grace, by which he has led us through this wilderness, that we may cheerfully serve him…

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Deuteronomy 8:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֚יkiforH3588
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
מְבִֽיאֲךָ֖me.vi.'a.Kha[will] bring youH935
אֶל\־'el-intoH413
אֶ֣רֶץ'E.retza landH776
טוֹבָ֑הto.VahgoodH2896
אֶ֚רֶץ'E.retza land ofH776
נַ֣חֲלֵיNa.cha.leitorrents ofH5158
מָ֔יִםMa.yimwaterH4325
עֲיָנֹת֙'a.ya.NotspringsH5869
וּתְהֹמֹ֔תu.te.ho.Motand deepsH8415
יֹצְאִ֥יםyo.tze.'Im[which] go forthH3318
בַּבִּקְעָ֖הba.bik.'Ahin the valleyH1237
וּבָהָֽר\׃u.va.Harand on the mountainH2022

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 8:7

  • Deuteronomy 11:9-12

    And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

  • Exodus 3:8

    And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

  • Ezekiel 20:6

    In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

  • Psalms 65:9-13

    Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. …

  • Deuteronomy 6:10-11

    And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

  • Nehemiah 9:24-25

    So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
6:10,11; 11:10-12; Ex 3:8; Ne 9:24,25; Ps 65:9-13; Eze 20:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 8:6

    Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

  • Deuteronomy 8:7

    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;

  • Deuteronomy 8:8

    A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

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Deuteronomy 8:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque Jehová tu Dios te introduce en la buena tierra, tierra de arroyos, de aguas, de fuentes, de abismos que brotan por vegas y montes;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, te fait entrer dans un bon pays, un pays de ruisseaux d’eau, de sources, et d’eaux profondes, qui sourdent dans les vallées et dans les montagnes;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn Jehova, dein Gott, bringt dich in ein gutes Land, ein Land von Wasserbächen, Quellen und Gewässern, die in der Niederung und im Gebirge entspringen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Dominus enim Deus tuus introducet te in terram bonam, terram rivorum, aquarumque et fontium, in cujus campis et montibus erumpunt fluviorum abyssi: