Deuteronomy 11:12

12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.

Deuteronomy 11:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 11:12

A land which the Lord thy God careth for
In a very particular and special manner; otherwise he has a general care of the whole world, and all the parts of it; for as the earth is his, and the fulness thereof, his providential care reaches everywhere; but as this spot was what he had chosen for his own residence, and the place of his worship, and for an habitation for his peculiar people; he exercised a more peculiar care over it, to make it fruitful, commodious, and pleasant; or which "he seeketh" F9; that is, the good of it, and to make it convenient, useful, and delightful to his people; yea, which he sought for and desired for his own habitation, ( Psalms 132:13 Psalms 132:14 ) ,

the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of
the year even unto the end of the year;
his eyes of providence, to give the former and the latter rain, and that there be seedtime and harvest in their seasons, and that the fruits of it be produced at their proper time; some at the beginning, others at the end of the year, and others in the intervening months, and all wisely suited to the good of the inhabitants of it.


FOOTNOTES:

F9 (vrd) "quaerit", Pagninus; "quaerens", Montanus.

Deuteronomy 11:12 In-Context

10 For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.
11 But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.
12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.
13 "If you carefully obey My commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship Him with all your heart and all your soul,
14 I will provide rain for your land in season, the early and late rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and oil.
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