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all these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars—besides a great number of unwalled towns.

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Fidelity in Prosperity. 10 (A)When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give you, a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,(B) 11 with houses full of goods of all sorts that you did not garner, with cisterns that you did not dig, with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant; and when, therefore, you eat and are satisfied,(C)

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11 (A)No, the land into which you are crossing to take possession is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in rain from the heavens,

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15 So Jacob ate and was satisfied,
    Jeshurun[a] grew fat and kicked;
    you became fat and gross and gorged.
They forsook the God who made them
    and scorned the Rock of their salvation.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 32:15 Jeshurun: a term for Israel from yashar, meaning “upright”; its use here is possibly ironic.