...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...

...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...

...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...fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive ; a land wherein they should eat bread without scarceness," and where they should " not lack any thing,"...

...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,...pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive and honey, a land whereon they should eat bread without scarceness, nor lack any thing in it ; a land whose stones were...

...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, a land of brooks of water, of 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,...

...land ; a land of brooks of water, of fountains, aatl depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; 8 sit we here unlil we die ? a 4 If we say, We will ; 9 A land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness, thou shall not lack any tiling in u ; a...

...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...

...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,...

...the LORD thy God, to walk in hit ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth tliee into a good land ; a land of brooks of water. of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hilb; b' A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, 3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy...