Verse-by-Verse Bible CommentaryDeuteronomy 11:9
so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. Jump to: Gill's Exposition • Trapp's Commentary • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes • Ellicott's Commentary • Treasury of Knowledge Other Authors
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole BibleAnd that ye may prolong your days in the land,.... Not only enter it, and take possession of it, but continue in it long, which depended upon their obedience to the laws of God: which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed; had promised with an oath, so that they might be assured of the enjoyment of it, though they could not be of their continuance in it, unless they obeyed the divine commands: a land that floweth with milk and honey; abounds with all good things, whose fruits are fat as milk, and sweet as honey; so the Targum of Jonathan. Copyright Statement Bibliography John Trapp Complete CommentaryDeuteronomy 11:9 And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. Ver. 9. And that ye may prolong.] {See Trapp on "Deuteronomy 4:40"} Copyright Statement Bibliography E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notesin the land = on the ground. Copyright Statement Bibliography Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) To give unto them.—See Note on Deuteronomy 11:21, further on. Copyright Statement Bibliography Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeAnd that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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