...to cut off the army. It is difficult, indeed, for us, whose lot has been cast in a good land — " a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills," — to form any adequate notion of the miseries endured by those who are compelled...

...his description given of it in another place. " For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land...

...beginning ol the year even unto the end of the year. The Lord thy God bringeth thee unto a gooc land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat and barley anc .vines and fig trees and pomegranates ; a land of...

...had been looking forward with earnest expectations It is a pleasant and fertile country : " a laud of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranntes ; aland...

...were but sufficiently irrigated and cultivated, if, indeed, the land were again what it once was, " a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that spring ont of valleys and hills," how fruitful, and how goodly and pleasant a land, by the blessing of God,...

...watered every where (Gen. xiii. 10.) ; and the same advantage continued in later ages tobe enjoyed by the Israelites, whose country was intersected by numerous...emphatically than beautifully described as a land of broolcs nf wuter, of fountains and depths, tliat spring out of valleys and hi Us. And the same preference...

...land of hills and valleys " — the feature we considered in our last lecture, he also described it as " a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that spring out of the valleys and hills ;" which, to a pastoral and agricultural people, such as were the Israelites,...

...thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land...

...and continuously broke. Deut. viu.'r— 10: — " The Lord thy God bringeth thec into a good land. A land of brooks of water, Of fountains and depths That spring out of va'leys and hills ; A land of wheat and barley, And vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates: A land...

...interposed to rescue the ark again out of the hands of the Philistines.* The land of Judea, once the " land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, that spring. out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of...