And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Parallel translations
- WEB and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- KJV And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- ESV And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- NKJV He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and honey”;
- NASB and He has brought us to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- NLT He brought us to this place and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey!
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Quick answer
God brought Israel into the promised land flowing with milk and honey. The Lord both rescues from bondage and brings into blessing.
Overview
Redemption from Egypt was not an end in itself but led to the gift of a bountiful inheritance. The phrase 'flowing with milk and honey' celebrates the land's God-given abundance. This pattern of being delivered from slavery and brought into a promised inheritance foreshadows the believer's salvation in Christ, who brings us out of sin and into the inheritance of God's eternal kingdom (Colossians 1:13).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Exod 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Ezek 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
- Ps 107:7–8He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
- Josh 23:14Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
- Acts 26:22But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
- 1 Sam 7:12Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
- Ps 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
- Ezek 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
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