Verse 19

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 30:15-16 : 15 See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, so that you may live and multiply, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
  • Isa 3:10 : 10 Tell the righteous that it will go well for them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
  • Isa 55:1-3 : 1 Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of food. 3 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, so that He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  • Jer 3:12-14 : 12 Go, proclaim these words toward the north: 'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD. 'I will not look on you with anger, for I am faithful,' declares the LORD, 'and I will not be angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD. 14 Return, faithless children,' declares the LORD, 'for I am your master. I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s lamenting: 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf. Restore me, and I will return, for you are the LORD my God.' 19 After I turned away, I repented; after I came to understand, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son, my precious child? For as often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore, my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.
  • Hos 14:1-4 : 1 Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open. 2 Return, Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your sins. 3 Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: 'Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the sacrifice of our lips.' 4 Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride on horses. We will no longer call what we have made with our hands 'our gods.' In you the orphan finds mercy.
  • Joel 2:26 : 26 You will have plenty to eat, and you will be satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you, and never again will my people be put to shame.
  • Matt 21:28-32 : 28 What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.' 29 The son replied, 'I don’t want to.' But later, he changed his mind and went. 30 The man then went to the second son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.' 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him. And even when you saw it, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.