Deuteronomy 11:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

Ver. ll. And drinketh water of the rain of heaven.] God crowning the year with his goodness, and his paths dropping fatness. Psa 65:10-12 In the Hebrew it is, Thy chariot-wheel tracks; for the clouds are God's chariots, Psa 104:3 in which water is bound. Job 26:8 How they are upheld, and why they fall here and now, we know not, and wonder. The Egyptians used in a profane mockery to tell other nations, that if God should forget to rain, they might chance to starve for it; they thought the rain was of God, but not their river Nile. See Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 29:9 Isaiah 19:5,6 .

Deuteronomy 11:11

11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: