Deuteronomy 8:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

Ver. 8. A land of wheat and barley.] Sumen totius orbis. Strabo basely slandereth this fat and fertile country as dry and barren; but Rabshakeh 2Ki 18:32 and Tacitus tell us otherwise. The testimony here given of it is above all exception.

Deuteronomy 8:8

8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oila olive, and honey;