Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 11:12

12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for : the eyes of the LORD thy God are alwayes upon it from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year .

To wit, in a special manner, watering it immediately as it were by his own hand without mans help, and giving peculiar blessings to it, which Egypt enjoys not.

To give it the ra[illegible: 1+ letters] and other blessings proper to the several seasons. But all these mercies and the fruitfulness of the land consequent upon them were suspended upon their disobedience as it here follows. And therefore it is not at all strange that some later writers de[illegible: 1+ letters]ry the land of Canaan as in great part a barren soyl, which is so far from affording any ground to question the divine authority of the holy Scriptures in which its fruitfulness is declared, that it doth much more confirm it, this being but an effect of that threatning that God would turn a fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of those that dwell in it, Psal. 107. 34. and elsewhere▪ and the wickedness of the Israelites in succeeding ages being notorious, it is but just and fit that the barrenness of their land should be as evident and infamous.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪; 1 King. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪