28 So Israel will live in safety;(A)
    Jacob will dwell[a] secure
in a land of grain and new wine,
    where the heavens drop dew.(B)

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  1. Deuteronomy 33:28 Septuagint; Hebrew Jacob’s spring is

13 About Joseph(A) he said:

“May the Lord bless his land
    with the precious dew from heaven above
    and with the deep waters that lie below;(B)

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13 He will love you and bless you(A) and increase your numbers.(B) He will bless the fruit of your womb,(C) the crops of your land—your grain, new wine(D) and olive oil(E)—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.(F)

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20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.(A)

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19 The Lord replied[a] to them:

“I am sending you grain, new wine(A) and olive oil,(B)
    enough to satisfy you fully;(C)
never again will I make you
    an object of scorn(D) to the nations.

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  1. Joel 2:19 Or Lord will be jealous … / and take pity … / 19 The Lord will reply

15 wine(A) that gladdens human hearts,
    oil(B) to make their faces shine,
    and bread that sustains(C) their hearts.

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Elijah Announces a Great Drought

17 Now Elijah(A) the Tishbite, from Tishbe[a] in Gilead,(B) said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain(C) in the next few years except at my word.”

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  1. 1 Kings 17:1 Or Tishbite, of the settlers

21 “Mountains of Gilboa,(A)
    may you have neither dew(B) nor rain,(C)
    may no showers fall on your terraced fields.[a](D)
For there the shield of the mighty was despised,
    the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.(E)

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  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Or / nor fields that yield grain for offerings

Let my teaching fall like rain(A)
    and my words descend like dew,(B)
like showers(C) on new grass,
    like abundant rain on tender plants.

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17 If some of the branches have been broken off,(A) and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others(B) and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

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17 How attractive and beautiful they will be!
    Grain will make the young men thrive,
    and new wine the young women.

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12 “The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit,(A) the ground will produce its crops,(B) and the heavens will drop their dew.(C) I will give all these things as an inheritance(D) to the remnant of this people.(E)

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I will be like the dew(A) to Israel;
    he will blossom like a lily.(B)
Like a cedar of Lebanon(C)
    he will send down his roots;(D)
    his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,(E)
    his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.(F)
People will dwell again in his shade;(G)
    they will flourish like the grain,
they will blossom(H) like the vine—
    Israel’s fame will be like the wine(I) of Lebanon.(J)

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22 Do any of the worthless idols(A) of the nations bring rain?(B)
    Do the skies themselves send down showers?
No, it is you, Lord our God.
    Therefore our hope is in you,
    for you are the one who does all this.(C)

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“You heavens above, rain(A) down my righteousness;(B)
    let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
    let salvation(C) spring up,
let righteousness flourish with it;
    I, the Lord, have created it.

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It is as if the dew(A) of Hermon(B)
    were falling on Mount Zion.(C)
For there the Lord bestows his blessing,(D)
    even life forevermore.(E)

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You care for the land and water it;(A)
    you enrich it abundantly.(B)
The streams of God are filled with water
    to provide the people with grain,(C)
    for so you have ordained it.[a]
10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
    you soften it with showers(D) and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,(E)
    and your carts overflow with abundance.(F)
12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;(G)
    the hills are clothed with gladness.(H)
13 The meadows are covered with flocks(I)
    and the valleys are mantled with grain;(J)
    they shout for joy and sing.(K)

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  1. Psalm 65:9 Or for that is how you prepare the land

They feast on the abundance of your house;(A)
    you give them drink from your river(B) of delights.(C)

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10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors[a] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors[b] of barley, twenty thousand baths[c] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.(A)

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  1. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,200 metric tons of wheat
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,000 tons or about 2,700 metric tons of barley
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters

11 and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors[a] of wheat as food(A) for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths[b][c] of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:11 That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,250 metric tons
  2. 1 Kings 5:11 Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 2:10); Hebrew twenty cors
  3. 1 Kings 5:11 That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters

The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness(A) forty years(B) until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us,(C) a land flowing with milk and honey.(D)

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11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys(A) that drinks rain from heaven.(B) 12 It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes(C) of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land(A)—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills;(B) a land with wheat and barley,(C) vines(D) and fig trees,(E) pomegranates, olive oil and honey;(F) a land where bread(G) will not be scarce and you will lack nothing;(H) a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.(I)

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12 “I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain(A) they give the Lord(B) as the firstfruits of their harvest.(C)

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