If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
Parallel translations
- KJV If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
- BSB If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best 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 30:15–16Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
- Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
- Joel 2:26You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.
- Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
- Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- Isa 55:1–3“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- Matt 21:28–32But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
- Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
- Jer 3:12–14Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
- Hos 14:1–4Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
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