...describing to the Israelites the Land of Canaan before they entered it — The Lord thy God bringetft thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water,...fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills : (Deut. viii. 7.) Similar,' and equally exact in description, is the language of the civ"1 Psalm :...

...discoveries of modern travel bear testimony to the fidelity of the ancient description of it — " a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that spring out of the vallies and hills." The mountainous districts of this once-favoured country, arc principally composed...

...intersected by numerous brooks and streams ; whence it is not more emphatically than beautifully described as a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that spring out of rallies and hills. And the same preference is given to this day by the Eelauts (a Tartar tribe occupying...

...fidelity with which Moses describes it to his people, as " a land flowing with milk and honey" — "a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains...vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive ; a land wherein they should eat bread without scarceness," and where they should " not lack...

...Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land,...fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land * of oil olive,...

...vain, then, had they seen, that it was " a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that sprang out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley,...vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive and honey, a land whereon they should eat bread without scarceness, nor lack any thing in...

...accustomed to look on the charms of her native country with great indifference. She saw nothing in that land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of the valleys and hills, to excite her admiration, though their great lawgiver had spoken of them with...

...commandments of Ihe LORD Ihy God, to walk in his ways, and lo fear him. A 7 For the LORD thv God bringelh thce reof. У 3 Tí And mere were four leprous men al the enteri aatl depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees,...

...divine favour ; to build them cities and plant vineyards. The land of promise was emphatically called " a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains...vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass."...

...valley (Cant. ii. 1, 16; iv. 5; v. 13), impart beauty and fragrance to this highly favoured land : — " a good land — a land of brooks of water, of fountains...that spring out of valleys and hills ;" — " a land flowing with milk and honey;" — " a land of wheat and barley, and • See Michaelis' Note* to Lowth,...