The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- KJV The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- NKJV “The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
- NASB The Lord will command the blessing for you in your barns and in everything that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
- NLT “The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
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Quick answer
God will command blessing on Israel's storehouses and all their labor in the land.
Overview
God's blessing is something he authoritatively commands, not a mere natural outcome. It rests on their work and the land he gives, marking it as gift, not achievement. This underscores that all true prosperity flows from God's hand.
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Cross-references · 16
- Deut 15:10Give generously to him, and do not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hand.
- Lev 26:10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- Prov 3:9–10Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- Ps 133:3It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Lev 26:4–5I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Luke 12:18Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
- Matt 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- Lev 25:21But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
- Ps 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
- Luke 12:24–25Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
- Hag 2:19Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
- Ps 144:13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- 2 Kgs 6:27He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”
- Ps 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
- Matt 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
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