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Deuteronomy 11:9 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 11 · verse 9
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.Deuteronomy 11:9 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 11:9 in context
7But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
9And 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.
10For 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:
11But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prolongʼârakto be longH748 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- flowethzûwbto flow freelyH2100 →
- swareshâbaʻto seven oneselfH7650 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
- landʼădâmâhsoilH127 →
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Still Moses urges the same subject, as loth to conclude till he had gained his point. "If thou wilt enter into life, if thou wilt enter into Canaan, a type of that life, and find it a good land indeed to thee, keep the commandments: Keep all the commandments which I command you this day;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-17