then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
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- WEB then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- KJV Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- BSB I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- NKJV then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- NLT I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.
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Quick answer
God promises seasonal rain, abundant harvests, and fruitful trees to an obedient Israel. He is the Giver of every good provision.
Overview
In an agrarian land dependent on rain, timely rains and full harvests were the visible sign of God's favor. These blessings answer the temptation to seek fertility from Canaanite idols like Baal. They remind us that every good gift comes from the Lord, who provides for His people both materially and, supremely, in Christ.
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Cross-references · 26
- Zech 8:12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
- Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
- Ezek 36:30I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
- Job 5:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- Deut 28:12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
- Lev 25:21then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
- Isa 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
- Deut 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
- Ezek 34:26–27I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- Joel 2:23–24“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
- Ps 85:12Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
- Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
- Ps 68:9You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
- Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
- Job 38:25–28Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
- Hag 2:18–19‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
- Ps 65:9–13You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
- Ps 104:13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
- Rev 11:6These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
- Jas 5:17–18Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
- Amos 4:7–8“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
- Job 37:11–13Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
- Jas 5:7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
- Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
- 1 Kgs 17:1Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
- Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
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