Deuteronomy 8:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For 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;

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  • Deut 11:9-9 : 9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden: 11 But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven: 12 A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.
  • Neh 9:24-25 : 24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do. 25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
  • Ezek 20:6 : 6 In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
  • Deut 6:10-11 : 10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building; 11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 11:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    10 For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:

    11 But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:

  • Deut 8:8-10
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    81%

    8 A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

    9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Num 14:7-8
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    78%

    7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.

    8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 26:9
    77%

    9 And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Ps 104:10
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    10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

  • Joel 3:18
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    18 Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

  • Deut 1:25
    75%

    25 And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Isa 41:18
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    18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • Ps 65:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

    10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

  • Deut 28:11-12
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    75%

    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

    12 Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

  • Deut 28:8
    75%

    8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 6:10-11
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    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Deut 27:3
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    3 And writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said.

  • Deut 8:15
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    15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15 The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

    16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

  • Isa 48:21
    74%

    21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • Deut 30:9
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    9 And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Jer 2:7
    74%

    7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • Ps 107:35
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    35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

  • Deut 6:3
    74%

    3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 1:7-8
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    74%

    7 Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Num 24:6
    74%

    6 They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

  • Ps 114:8
    74%

    8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • Deut 6:18
    74%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Ps 104:13
    74%

    13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

  • Deut 30:5
    73%

    5 Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.

  • 2 Kgs 3:17
    73%

    17 For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

  • Josh 24:13
    73%

    13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

  • Deut 26:15
    73%

    15 So, looking down from your holy place in heaven, send your blessing on your people Israel and on the land which you have given us, as you said in your oath to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 2:7
    73%

    7 For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

  • Jer 32:22
    73%

    22 And have given them this land, which you gave your word to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

  • Deut 7:13
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    13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

  • Deut 4:38
    73%

    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Ps 84:6
    73%

    6 Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

  • Josh 1:4
    73%

    4 From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country.

  • Isa 58:11
    72%

    11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

  • Heb 6:7
    72%

    7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • Exod 3:17
    72%

    17 And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 10:7
    72%

    7 From there they went on to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.

  • Ps 85:12
    72%

    12 The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase.