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Deuteronomy 26

Deut. 26:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Lookp down
shaqaph (Hebrew #8259)
properly, to lean out (of a window), i.e. (by implication) peep or gaze (passively, be a spectacle)
KJV usage: appear, look (down, forth, out).
Pronounce: shaw-kaf'
Origin: a primitive root
from thy holy
qodesh (Hebrew #6944)
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
KJV usage: consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy (X day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.
Pronounce: ko'-desh
Origin: from 6942
habitation
ma`own (Hebrew #4583)
from the same as 5772; an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)
KJV usage: den, dwelling((-)place), habitation.
Pronounce: maw-ohn'
Origin: or maiyn (1 Chronicles 4:41) {maw-een'}
, from heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
r, and bless
barak (Hebrew #1288)
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
KJV usage: X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank.
Pronounce: baw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
s thy people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, and the land
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
which thou hast given
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
us, as thou swarest
shaba` (Hebrew #7650)
propr. to be complete, but used only as a denominative from 7651; to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
KJV usage: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for 7646), take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.
Pronounce: shaw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
t unto our fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
, a land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
that floweth
zuwb (Hebrew #2100)
to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow
KJV usage: flow, gush out, have a (running) issue, pine away, run.
Pronounce: zoob
Origin: a primitive root
with milk
chalab (Hebrew #2461)
milk (as the richness of kine)
KJV usage: + cheese, milk, sucking.
Pronounce: khaw-lawb'
Origin: from the same as 2459
and honey
dbash (Hebrew #1706)
honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup
KJV usage: honey((-comb)).
Pronounce: deb-ash'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be gummy
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Isa. 63:15• 15Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me? (Isa. 63:15)
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Isa. 66:1• 1Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest? (Isa. 66:1)
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Psa. 28:9• 9Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever. (Psa. 28:9)
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Psa. 51:18• 18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa. 51:18)
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Heb. 6:13‑18• 13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
 14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
 15and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.
 16For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
 17Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,
 18that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:13‑18)

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Honey,
Israel,
Milk

Cross References

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Look down.
Deut. 26:7• 7and we cried to Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression; (Deut. 26:7)
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1 Kings 8:27,43• 27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
 43hear thou in the heavens thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; in order that all peoples of the earth may know thy name, and that they may fear thee as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name. (1 Kings 8:27,43)
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Psa. 102:19‑20• 19For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,
 20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to die; (Psa. 102:19‑20)
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Isa. 57:15• 15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, and whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. (Isa. 57:15)
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Isa. 61:1• 1The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound; (Isa. 61:1)
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Isa. 63:15• 15Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me? (Isa. 63:15)
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Isa. 66:1‑2• 1Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest?
 2Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word. (Isa. 66:1‑2)
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Zech. 2:13• 13Let all flesh be silent before Jehovah; for he is risen up out of his holy habitation. (Zech. 2:13)
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Matt. 6:9• 9Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified, (Matt. 6:9)
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Acts 7:49• 49The heaven is my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord, or where is the place of my rest? (Acts 7:49)
bless thy.
Psa. 28:9• 9Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever. (Psa. 28:9)
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Psa. 51:18• 18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa. 51:18)
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Psa. 90:17• 17And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it. (Psa. 90:17)
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Psa. 115:12‑15• 12Jehovah hath been mindful of us: he will bless, he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;
 13He will bless them that fear Jehovah, both the small and the great.
 14Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children.
 15Ye are blessed of Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth. (Psa. 115:12‑15)
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Psa. 137:5‑6• 5If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill;
 6If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Psa. 137:5‑6)
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Jer. 31:23• 23Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: They shall again use this speech, in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn their captivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness! (Jer. 31:23)
as thou.
Heb. 6:13‑18• 13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
 14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
 15and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.
 16For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
 17Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,
 18that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:13‑18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Look down from thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless thy people Israel, and the landa that thou hast given us as thou didst swear unto our fathers, a landb flowing with milk and honey!

JND Translation Notes

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a
Or "ground," "soil," as ver. 2.
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Or "a country," as ch. 11.12.