...always mentioned conjunctively in the Scriptures as symbols and proofs of prosperity and fertility. " The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land ; * * * a land of vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil, olive, and honey." Deut. viii. 8. And when...

...of the country, water M extremely scarce," so that immersion could not be performed. Deut. viii. 7 : "For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,...of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that spring out of the valley* and hills." Palestine is about 200 miles long and 80 wide ; bounded on the...

...the Israelites during their progress through the Wilderness, thus describes the Land of Canaan : " 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; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees and pomegranates...

...this is mentioned thirty or forty times in connection with it. And then hear Moses, who said to them, "The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,...land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates...

...extremely scarce," so that immersion could not be petformed. Deut. viii. 7 : "For the Lord thy God bringoth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that spring out of the valleys and hills." Palestine is about 200 miles long and 80 wide ; bounded on the...

...shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the Loan ou The bread of adversity, and the water of ^ affliction, Yet shal 8 of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vine«,...

...effectual methods to cut off the army. It is difficult, indeed, for us, whose lot has been cast in a good land — " a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills," — to form any adequate notion of the miseries endured by those...

...their return to say, " It is a good land •which the Lord our God doth give us." — (Deut. i. 25.J "For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,...of brooks of •water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates...

...pasturage, but likewise yielded iron and brass; as it is stated in the eighth chapter of Dcuteronomy,* " For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks cf water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley,...

...of a similarly situated country, and the verse is particularly applicable to New South Wales : — " The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land — a land of wheat and barley — of vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates — a land of oil, olives and honey...