Deuteronomy 8:7

bringeth thee is about to bring thee: see above on Deuteronomy 6:10.

a good land Deuteronomy 1:35: Sam. and LXX add here and a large(Exodus 3:8).

brooks of water … fountains … depths The principal and characteristic waters of Palestine (for the hydrography of the land see especially Robinson, Phys. Geog. of the Holy Land, ch. ii, Trelawney Saunders, Introd. to Survey of W. Pal.; also the present writer's HGHL, 77 f., 657 f., and Jerusalem, Bk i. chs. 3 5). Brook: naḥal(Deuteronomy 2:13) is the Ar. wady, applied both to a valley with only a winter-torrent (e.g. Kidron) and one with a perennial stream (e.g. Arnon and Jabboḳ), the more exact name for which is naḥal "çthan(HGHL, 657). Fountains: -ayanoth, springs of living water as distinct from cisterns (id.77 f.). Depths: tehômôth, pl. of tehom, the mythical name not only of the open ocean round the earth, but of its supposed continuance under the earth (Deuteronomy 4:18; Deuteronomy 5:8), from which the fountains, salt and fresh alike, seemed to be derived (Amos 8:4); the depthshere are therefore either the lakesof Palestine, perennial (Phiala or Birket er-Ram, Huleh, Gennesaret and the Dead Sea) and seasonal (e.g. Merj el-Ghuruk, HGHL, 327 n.), a possible meaning for tehômôthin Psalms 135:6; or the larger outbursts of water from underground, the births of full rivers (as at Tell el Ḳady) so characteristic of Palestine. This second meaning is the more probable here both because of the following springing forth, and the parallelism between depthsand fountains(the larger word for fountains) in Proverbs 8:24. See below on Deuteronomy 33:13.

springing forth in valleys and hills Lit. in the valley and on the mountain. The phenomenon is due to the limestone formation of the land, the larger outbursts occurring mainly at the foot of a hill or great mound, where the harder dolomitic limestone impenetrable by water comes to the surface, forcing the water out. Where the softer cretaceous strata lie deep the water sinks through them and fountains are either scanty or altogether wanting. Valley, biḳ-ah, HGHL, 654 f.