Deuteronomy 7:13

Hebrew Bible

11 So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do. 12 If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors. 13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you. 14 You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock. 15 The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

Haggai 1:11

Hebrew Bible

9 “You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little. And when you would bring it home, I would blow it right away. Why?” asks the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house! 10 This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce. 11 Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce. 12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, along with the whole remnant of the people, obeyed the Lord their God. They responded favorably to the message of the prophet Haggai, who spoke just as the Lord their God had instructed him, and the people began to respect the Lord. 13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s announcement to the people: “I am with you,” decrees the Lord.

 Notes and References

"... grain, wine, and oil: These terms, often used in Deuteronomy for the chief products of the land of Israel (11:14; 12:17; 14:23; 18:4; 28:51), are also marked in Hosea as YHWH's gifts to Israel (2:10, 24); compare also Numbers 18:12; Jeremiah 31:12; Joel 1:10; 2: 19; Haggai 1:11. In other sources we find the pair "grain and wine (dagan, tyrs)" compare Genesis 27:28, 37; Deuteronomy 33:28; Hosea 2:11; 7:14; etc. Both dagan and tyrs are originally associated with divine names. Dagan is a well-attested deity in Syria (Ebia) and in Mesopotamia. In Ugaritic literature Baal is named the son of Dagan, and in the Phoenician history of Philo of Byblos we read that Kronos (= El) was the father of Dagan, the discoverer of grain and the plow. Dagon - as pronounced in Phoenician, with o - was also known as the god of the Philistines (Judges 11:23; 1 Samuel 5:1-17). Trt (= Tyrws) is also attested in a god list from Ugarit ..."

Weinfeld, Moshe Deuteronomy 1-11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (p. 373) Doubleday, 1991

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