Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; New Living Translation For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the valleys and hills. English Standard Version For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, Berean Standard Bible For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; King James Bible For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; New King James Version For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; New American Standard Bible For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in valleys and hills; NASB 1995 “For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; NASB 1977 “For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; Legacy Standard Bible For Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; Amplified Bible For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; Christian Standard Bible For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; Holman Christian Standard Bible For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; American Standard Version For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because LORD JEHOVAH your God brings you into the good land, the land of the torrents of waters and the springs and the depths that come forth in the plain and in the mountains; Brenton Septuagint Translation For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good and extensive land, where there are torrents of waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains: Contemporary English Version The LORD your God is bringing you into a good land with streams that flow from springs in the valleys and hills. Douay-Rheims Bible For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out: English Revised Version For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; GOD'S WORD® Translation The LORD your God is bringing you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that don't dry up. There are springs and underground streams flowing through the valleys and hills. Good News Translation The LORD your God is bringing you into a fertile land--a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills; International Standard Version because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land—a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills. JPS Tanakh 1917 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills; Literal Standard Version For your God YHWH is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain; Majority Standard Bible For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; New American Bible For the LORD, your God, is bringing you into a good country, a land with streams of water, with springs and fountains welling up in the hills and valleys, NET Bible For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, New Revised Standard Version For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, New Heart English Bible For the LORD your God brings you into a good and spacious land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; Webster's Bible Translation For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; World English Bible For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; Young's Literal Translation 'For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Remember the LORD Your God…6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him. 7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; 8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;… Cross References Genesis 49:11 He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. Deuteronomy 8:6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him. Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; Deuteronomy 11:9 and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven. 2 Kings 18:32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own--a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey--so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' Treasury of Scripture For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; Deuteronomy 6:10,11 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, … Deuteronomy 11:10-12 For 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: … Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Jump to Previous Brooks Deep Depths Hills Mountain Pools Spring Springing Springs Streams Valley Valleys Water Waters Water-SpringsJump to Next Brooks Deep Depths Hills Mountain Pools Spring Springing Springs Streams Valley Valleys Water Waters Water-SpringsDeuteronomy 8 1. An exhortation to obedience in regard to God's mercy and goodness to Israel.(7) For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land.--The description in this and the following verses is most attractive; but it is a long time since any one has seen Palestine in that condition. Its desolation, no less than its beauty, is a proof of the truth of the Divine word. Of fountains and depths that spring out.--Rather, that go forth in the valley and on the hill. The watercourse down the mountain-side, and the deep lake or still pool below, are both described here. Verses 7-20. - The land on which they were about to enter is described as a good laud, fertile and well watered, and yielding abundant produce to its cultivators; and they are cautioned against forgetting, in their enjoyment of the gift, the bounty of the Giver, or congratulating themselves on having achieved the conquest of such a land, instead of gratefully acknowledging the grace which had sustained them during their protracted wandering in the wilderness, and by which alone they had been enabled to take possession of that favored land. Verses 7, 8 - Brooks of water, running streams, mountain torrents, and watercourses in the narrow valleys or wadys; fountains, perennial springs; depths, "the fathomless pools from which such streams as the Abana (now Barada), near Damascus, spring up full-grown rivers, almost as broad at their sources as at their mouths" (Condor, 'Handbook to the Bible,' p. 214), or this may include also the inland seas or lakes, such as the sea of Galileo and Lake Haleh. Palestine is in the present day, on the whole, well supplied with water, though the distribution is very unequal, many parts being almost wholly destitute of supply, except from what may be collected from rain in tanks or cisterns; and there is no reason to suppose it was different in the ancient times. As compared, however, with the desert to which the Israelites had been so long accustomed, and even with Egypt from which they had escaped, the country on which they were about to enter was well watered.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֚י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction the LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative is bringing מְבִֽיאֲךָ֖ (mə·ḇî·’ă·ḵā) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go you into אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to a good טוֹבָ֑ה (ṭō·w·ḇāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good land, אֶ֣רֶץ (’e·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land a land אֶ֚רֶץ (’e·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 776: Earth, land of brooks נַ֣חֲלֵי (na·ḥă·lê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft and fountains עֲיָנֹת֙ (‘ă·yā·nōṯ) Noun - common plural Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain and springs וּתְהֹמֹ֔ת (ū·ṯə·hō·mōṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - common plural Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep that flow יֹצְאִ֥ים (yō·ṣə·’îm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim through the valleys בַּבִּקְעָ֖ה (bab·biq·‘āh) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1237: A split, a wide level valley between mountains and hills; וּבָהָֽר׃ (ū·ḇā·hār) Conjunctive waw, Preposition, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country Links Deuteronomy 8:7 NIVDeuteronomy 8:7 NLT Deuteronomy 8:7 ESV Deuteronomy 8:7 NASB Deuteronomy 8:7 KJV Deuteronomy 8:7 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 8:7 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 8:7 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 8:7 French Bible Deuteronomy 8:7 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 8:7 For Yahweh your God brings you into (Deut. 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