Deuteronomio 8:9

9 tierra donde no escaseará el pan y donde nada te faltará; tierra donde las rocas son de hierro y de cuyas colinas sacarás cobre.

Deuteronomio 8:9 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 8:9

A land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness
That is, should have plenty of all sorts of provisions, which bread is often put for:

thou shall not lack anything in it;
for necessity and convenience, and for delight and pleasure:

a land whose stones are iron;
in which were iron mines:

and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass;
both which are taken out of the earth and the stones of it, ( Job 28:2 ) and were to be found in the land of Canaan, and particularly in the tribe of Asher, as seems from ( Deuteronomy 33:25 ) and more particularly at Sidon and Sarepta, which were in that tribe; the latter of which seems to have its name from the melting of metals there, and the former is said in Homer ^F20 to abound with brass.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (ek men sidwnov polucalkou) . Homer. Odyss. 15. l. 424.

Deuteronomio 8:9 In-Context

7 Porque el SEÑOR tu Dios te conduce a una tierra buena: tierra de arroyos y de fuentes de agua, con manantiales que fluyen en los valles y en las colinas;

8 tierra de trigo y de cebada; de viñas, higueras y granados; de miel y de olivares;

9 tierra donde no escaseará el pan y donde nada te faltará; tierra donde las rocas son de hierro y de cuyas colinas sacarás cobre.

10 »Cuando hayas comido y estés satisfecho, alabarás al SEÑOR tu Dios por la tierra buena que te habrá dado.

11 Pero ten cuidado de no olvidar al SEÑOR tu Dios. No dejes de cumplir sus mandamientos, normas y preceptos que yo te mando hoy.