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If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
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A Clear Choice and Consequence
Commentators explain that this verse presents a straightforward principle of God's moral government. God sets a clear choice before Israel: if they are 'willing and obedient,' they will enjoy the tangible blessings of peace and prosperity in their land. This reverses the curses of foreign invasion and famine mentioned earlier (v. 7) and demonstrates that their well-being is directly tied to their relationship with Him.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If you are willing – If you submit your wills, and become voluntary in your obedience to my law.
And obedient – Hebrew: If you…
19th Century
Anglican
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. —The promise of temporal blessings as the reward of a t…
Baptist
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
You shall no longer be as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, a…
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16th Century
Protestant
If ye be willing and obedient, Isaiah continues to plead God's cause against the people. He states in a few words that not only must the p…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you be willing and obedient The Targum adds, "to my Word": the Word made flesh, and dwelling among them; who woul…
Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. We must be doing, not stand idle. We must be doing the good the Lord our Go…
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13th Century
Catholic
The new moons, and the sabbaths. Here he rejects the celebration of solemn festivals.
He addresses this in three s…
