A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
A land whose stones are iron. The abundance of this metal in Palestine, especially among the mountains of Lebanon, those of Kesraoun, in the ferruginous basalt rocks of the Hauran, and elsewhere (cf. Numbers 31:22), is attested not only by Josephus, but by Volney (Deuteronomy 1:21), Buckingham, and other travelers (Drew's 'Scripture Lands,' p. 131; Wilson's 'Lands,' 2:, p. 603).
Brass - not the alloy brass, but the ore of copper. Although the mines may now be exhausted or neglected, they yielded plenty of those meals anciently (1 Chronicles 22:3; 1 Chronicles 29:2-7; Isaiah 60:17).