and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- BSB And He brought us to 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).
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Cross-references · 8
- Exod 3:8I 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.
- Ezek 20:6in that day I swore to them, to bring them 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.
- Ps 107:7–8he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
- Josh 23:14“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
- Acts 26:22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
- 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
- Ps 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
- Ezek 20:15Moreover 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;
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