Deuteronomy 8:8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;

English Standard Version
a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

New American Standard Bible
a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

International Standard Version
It's a land filled with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates. It's a land filled with olive oil and honey—

American Standard Version
a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

Douay-Rheims Bible
A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.

Darby Bible Translation
a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

Young's Literal Translation
a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;

Cross References

Genesis 49:11
Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

Deuteronomy 8:7
For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

Deuteronomy 8:9
A land wherein you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.

Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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 and trust in him. They must remember the straits they were sometimes brought into, for mortifying their pride, and manifesting their perverseness; to prove them, that they and others might know all that was in their heart, and that all might see that God chose them, not for any thing in them which might recommend them to his favour. They must remember the miraculous supplies of food and raiment granted them. Let none of God's children distrust their Father, nor take any sinful course for the supply of their necessities. Some way or other, God will provide for them in the way of duty and honest diligence, and verily they shall be fed. It may be applied spiritually; the word of God is the food of the soul. Christ is the word of God; by him we live. They must also remember the rebukes they had been under, and not without need. This use we should make of all our afflictions; by them let us be quickened to our duty. Moses also directs them to look forward to Canaan. Look which way we will, both to look back and to look forward, to Canaan. Look which way we will, both to look back and to look forward will furnish us with arguments for obedience. Moses saw in that land a type of the better country. The gospel church is the New Testament Canaan, watered with the Spirit in his gifts and graces, planted with trees of righteousness, bearing fruits of righteousness. Heaven is the good land, in which nothing is wanting, and where is fulness of joy.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. A land of wheat, and barley—These cereal fruits were specially promised to the Israelites in the event of their faithful allegiance to the covenant of God (Ps 81:16; 147:14). The wheat and barley were so abundant as to yield sixty and often an hundredfold (Ge 26:12; Mt 13:8).

vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates—The limestone rocks and abrupt valleys were entirely covered, as traces of them still show, with plantations of figs, vines, and olive trees. Though in a southern latitude, its mountainous formations tempered the excessive heat, and hence, figs, pomegranates, &c., were produced in Palestine equally with wheat and barley, the produce of northern regions.

honey—The word "honey" is used often in a loose, indeterminate sense, very frequently to signify a syrup of dates or of grapes, which under the name of dibs is much used by all classes, wherever vineyards are found, as a condiment to their food. It resembles thin molasses, but is more pleasant to the taste [Robinson]. This is esteemed a great delicacy in the East, and it was produced abundantly in Palestine.