The Promised Land:
The Land of Milk and Honey
Ex 3:8,17
8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to
bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing
with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the
Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the
land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
Ex 13:5
It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to
your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you
shall keep this service in this month.
Ex 33:3
to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst
of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.”
Lv 20:24
But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to
you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh
your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
Nm 13:27
They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us; and surely
it flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.
Nm 14:8
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to
us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Nm 16:13,14
13 is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with
milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make
yourself a prince over us?
14 Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey,
nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of
these men? We won’t come up.”
Dt 6:3
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and
that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised
to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Dt 11:9
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your
fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and
honey.
Dt 26:9,15
9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land
flowing with milk and honey.
15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people
Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a
land flowing with milk and honey.”
Dt 27:3
and you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed
over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land
flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has
promised you.
Dt 31:20
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their
fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled
themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them,
and despise me, and break my covenant.
Jsh 5:6
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the
nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they
didn’t listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t
let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us,
a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jr 11:5
that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a
land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said,
Amen, Yahweh.
Jr 32:22
and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a
land flowing with milk and honey;
Ezk 20:6,15
6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into
a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey,
which is the glory of all lands.
15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them
into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which
is the glory of all lands;