Deuteronomy 8:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 22:14 : 14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the LORD’s temple. I have stored up 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more!
  • Job 28:2 : 2 Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.
  • Deut 33:25 : 25 The bars of your gates will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.
  • Josh 22:8 : 8 saying,“Take home great wealth, a lot of cattle, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers.”

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    7For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

    8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

  • Deut 8:10
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    10You will eat your fill and then praise the LORD your God because of the good land he has given you.

  • Deut 6:10-11
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    10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

    11houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,

  • Judg 18:10
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    10When you invade, you will encounter unsuspecting people. The land is wide! God is handing it over to you– a place that lacks nothing on earth!”

  • Josh 24:13
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    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Deut 11:9-11
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    9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    10For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

    11Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

  • Deut 28:23
    74%

    23The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

  • Job 28:2
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    2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

  • Deut 28:11-12
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    11The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

    12The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

  • Deut 28:8
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    8The LORD will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do– yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.

  • Lev 26:5
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    5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

  • Deut 15:4
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    4However, there should not be any poor among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,

  • Deut 2:6-7
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    6You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.

    7All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wilderness. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

  • Neh 9:15
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    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Num 14:8
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    8If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us– a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

  • Isa 36:17
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    17until I come and take you to a land just like your own– a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

  • Deut 32:13
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    13He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

  • Deut 8:15-16
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    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

    16fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

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    32until I come and take you to a land just like your own– a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says,“The LORD will rescue us.”

  • Lev 25:19
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    19“‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, and you may live securely in the land.

  • Neh 9:25
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    25They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things– wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

  • Deut 8:3
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    3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.

  • Job 28:5-6
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    5The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;

    6a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold;

  • Deut 8:12-13
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    12When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

    13when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

  • Deut 26:9
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    9Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 26:15
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    15Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors– a land flowing with milk and honey.”

  • Isa 30:23
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    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

  • Deut 30:9
    71%

    9The LORD your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

  • Deut 33:15
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    15with the best of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

  • Deut 28:33
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    33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

  • Deut 11:15
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    15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • Deut 28:48
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    48instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

  • Josh 17:18
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    18The whole hill country will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

  • Deut 12:7
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    7Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

  • Jer 15:12
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    12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?

  • Deut 1:8
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    8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

  • Deut 27:5
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    5Then you must build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones– do not use an iron tool on them.

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    24Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River(that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

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    4Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east(including all of Syria) and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

  • Deut 33:25
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    25The bars of your gates will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.