Exodus 3:8

God says He has come down to deliver Israel and bring them to a good land flowing with milk and honey. He promises both rescue from Egypt and a rich inheritance.

Cross-references · 40

• Gen 50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
• Gen 15:18–21On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
• Exod 3:17And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
• Deut 1:25They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
• Exod 13:5And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
• Jer 11:5This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
• Deut 8:7–9For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
• Num 13:27And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
• 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.
• John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
• Ps 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
• Exod 6:6–8Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
• Exod 12:51And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
• Ps 34:8Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
• Ps 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
• Gen 11:5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
• Deut 11:9–24and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Jer 32:22You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Deut 27:3Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
• Deut 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
• Isa 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
• John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
• Neh 9:22–25You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
• Num 14:7–8and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
• Ps 22:4–5In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.
• Exod 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
• Exod 33:2–3And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
• Gen 18:21I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
• Exod 22:23–31If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
• Gen 15:14But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
• Gen 11:7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
• Deut 26:9–15And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Deut 28:11The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
• Neh 9:8You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
• Gen 13:14–15After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
• Ps 18:9–19He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
• Jer 2:7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
• Num 13:19Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
• Josh 9:1Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—
• Deut 1:7Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

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