9A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
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Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The charge here given them is the same as before, to keep and do all God’s commandments. Their obedience must be, 1. Careful: Observe to do . 2. Universal: To do all the commandments , Deut. 8:1. And, 3. From a good principle, with a regard to God as the Lord, and their God, and particularly with a holy fear of him (Deut. 8:6), from a reverence of his majesty, a submission to his authority, and a…
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