And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth 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.
- 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 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
- Ezek 20:6In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
- Ps 107:7–8And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
- Josh 23:14And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
- Acts 26:22Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
- 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
- Ps 105:44And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
- Ezek 20:15Yet also I lifted up my hand unto 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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