Verse 9
A land wherein thou shall eat bread without scarceness ,.... That is, should have plenty of all sorts of provisions, which bread is often put for:
thou shall not lack anything in it ; for necessity and convenience, and for delight and pleasure:
a land whose stones are iron ; in which were iron mines:
and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass ; both which are taken out of the earth and the stones of it, Job 28:2 and were to be found in the land of Canaan, and particularly in the tribe of Asher, as seems from Deuteronomy 33:25 and more particularly at Sidon and Sarepta, which were in that tribe; the latter of which seems to have its name from the melting of metals there, and the former is said in Homer F20 εκ μεν σιδωνος πολυχαλκου . Homer. Odyss. 15. l. 424. to abound with brass.
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