If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
- KJV If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
- NKJV If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
- NASB “If you are willing and obedient, You will eat the best of the land;
- NLT If you will only obey me, you will have plenty to eat.
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Quick answer
If the people are willing and obedient, they will enjoy the good of the land. Blessing is held out as the fruit of repentant obedience.
Overview
This reflects the covenant blessings promised in Deuteronomy for faithfulness. Willingness and obedience together describe wholehearted submission to God. While the immediate promise concerns the land, it foreshadows the fuller inheritance God grants His obedient people in Christ.
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Cross-references · 10
- Deut 30:15–16See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.
- Isa 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- Joel 2:26You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.
- Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
- Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Isa 55:1–3“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- Matt 21:28–32But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
- Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Jer 3:12–14Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
- Hos 14:1–4Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
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